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The Carter County junior high football team ended a successful year on October 6 with one final practice in which they ran from the school parking lot to the top of "C Hill" to celebrate their enjoyable season and new coaching staff. Head coach Carson Hilliard and assistant Rusty Spencer led the team as they headed for the hill. Coach Ches Meyer was unable to attend, but was recognized as well by the group. Eighth grade players made their mark on the hill and all the boys...
Earlier this year, local teen Katie Tooke was battling health problems. She spent almost an entire month seriously ill before finally being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. That was about the same time everything got shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ekalaka Public Schools went to online instruction from March 16 through the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Tooke was at home, isolated from friends and activities like the rest of her classmates. After a rough th...
After reporting one case of COVID-19 in Carter County early last week, the Carter County COVID-19 Task Force reported a total of three active cases last Wednesday. At an emergency meeting that evening, school board members voted to close Ekalaka Public Schools until 4 p.m. on Friday. All high school and junior high activities, including volleyball games scheduled for Thursday in Jordan, were canceled. After the school reopened, Friday night’s varsity football game versus Forsyth and Saturday’s volleyball games versus Cir...
On Wednesday morning, the Carter County COVID-19 Task Force announced that the county has its first positive case of COVID-19. The case is described as “secondary to a COVID-19 outbreak in Powder River County. Powder River County is now above the four-active-case threshold for the mask mandate enacted July 15. Powder River County High School will begin remote online instruction beginning on Thursday, September 24th through Friday, October 2nd. They have also canceled all school activities and sports through October 3. P...
Mr. Daniel Conley is no stranger to small towns, or Montana, even though the new Carter County High School English teacher was born in New York City. Conley is now in his second year teaching and made the move to Ekalaka just before this school year began. Conley spent much of his youth in upstate New York, in a town about twice the size of Ekalaka. He spent 32 years as a chef before deciding to make a career change to teaching. His first job as a chef was for an...
A phone call out of the blue led Stephen Ely and his wife, Melissa, to Ekalaka for a visit earlier this summer. "We fell in love," the new principal at Ekalaka Public Schools told the Eagle. Mr. and Mrs. Ely arrived in Ekalaka right before the 2020-21 school year started. They made the move across the country all the way from Florida. This is Ely's thirty-first year in education. He has been a football coach, business teacher, and has spent the last 16 years of his career in...
Summit National Bank is inviting the public to wish Michael J. Quade congratulations on retirement. Quade has spent more than 44 years in banking and plans to start transitioning into retirement on September 15. He will be scaling back hours at the bank significantly while remaining present to aid in training new lender Caleb Duvall. Duvall is a recent graduate of North Dakota State University and is excited about the opportunity to help people in the community. Quade started...
Gale A. "Griz" Welch, 80, of Missoula passed away on August 14, 2020 at St. Patrick's Hospital. Gale was born in Ekalaka, MT. on August 17, 1939 to Delbert "Jerry" Welch & Eleanora Frye Welch. He attended schools in Ekalaka and graduated from Carter County High School in 1957. He participated in football, baseball, and belonged to the "C" club, the Broadcaster, and Annual staff. Many lifelong friendships were made during his high school days. He enjoyed his high school...
Funeral services for Jane Brewster, of Ekalaka, will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, August 20, 2020 at the First Baptist Church in Ekalaka with Pastor Steve DeFord officiating. Burial will take place in Beaverlodge Cemetery. Visitation will take place an hour prior to the service. Jane passed away Sunday, August 16, 2020 at Dahl Memorial Healthcare in Ekalaka. Jane was born to Ole and Mabel Moholt (Amundson) in Lindsey, MT on October 23, 1922. She left behind the cares of this world...
Multiple Carter County High School classes held reunions over the Days of '85 weekend in Ekalaka....
Carter County High School students finally had a chance to attend their 2020 prom after it was originally canceled due to COVID-19. The outdoor prom was held on August 1 at Rowley Field....
Roger Arpan, age 63 of Spearfish and Alzada MT, died Friday, July 3, 2020 at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. Services will be held 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 10, 2020 at Leverington Funeral Home of the Northern Hills in Belle Fourche. Visitation will take place at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, with a 6 p.m. family service for the public. Interment will take place in Pine Slope Cemetery. The service will be live-streamed on the obituary page on...
Yvonne Adair Kortum, the fourth of nine children, was born February 24, 1945 to Bud and Edith Kortum. Her short but brave fight with cancer ended with her family and loyal dog, Spud, by her side in Melstone on May 22, 2020. Yvonne spent her childhood roaming the Chalk Buttes and graduated from Carter County High School in 1963. She married Homer Meade in September of 1963. In this marriage, Yvonne shared two sons, Buddy Flynn and Billy Ray. Yvonne, Homer, and the boys spent...
I have written about “Bud” Asbury, including some information on his parents (Elmo & Bessie), his education, graduation from Carter County High School in 1928 and a small amount on his love for ranching, riding bucking horses and bulldogging. The short article in “Shifting Scenes” about Bud mentions nothing about his marriage to Edna, but there is a lot of information on her family, where they lived, her education, teaching time, and yes, her marriage to Bud and some of their life on the Asbury Ranch. Let’s share her artic...
Southeast Electric Cooperative encourages students and members to always be learning. Scholarship funds are always a good way to help with this goal. In the last 10 years Southeast has awarded over $50,000 in scholarships. The cooperative considers it an investment in its future. Four scholarships are offered each year. The Southeast Electric Essay Scholarship for $1,000, The Basin Electric Power Cooperative Scholarship for $1,000 and the Vern Emery Memorial Lineman...
Edward "Bub" Stuart passed away peacefully at Monument Health Hospital in Rapid City, SD on April 30, 2020. Ed or Bub (as he was sometimes referred to) was born at the home of Susan Kerr in Ekalaka, MT., to Walter and Alta Stuart. He graduated from Carter County High School and joined the Navy. After his time in the service Bub married Virginia Melum on May 23, 1954. To this union five children were born Jim, Rusty, Darla, Mary and Bill. Bub worked various jobs in his lifetime...
Funeral services for Leroy "Whitey" Jardee, 73, of Ekalaka will be 2 p.m., Friday May 1, 2020 at Stevenson Funeral Home of Ekalaka. Due to COVID-19, social distancing guidelines will be in practice. For those unable to be seated in the main area, there are speakers outside. The service will be livestreamed on the Stevenson Funeral Home Facebook page on Friday. Burial will follow at the Beaverlodge Cemetery of Ekalaka. Family will be receiving friends on Thursday, April 30...
In my search for another article I came upon a couple of interesting families in “Shifting Scenes,” and after reading some of these family histories, I have decided to share. This couple each has their own article with information about their parents, origin, families and ranch life. Upon reading, I realized how activities and life have changed from that time until now. The couple was Harold “Bud” Asbury and his wife Edna Asbury. I will introduce Bud to you with information about his life mostly here in Carter County....
Leah Zoe Waldren, age 93, passed away January 8, 2020, at Dahl Memorial Nursing Home in Ekalaka. Zoe was born in Baker, on May 20, 1926, to Arthur E. "Big Kid" and Gladys Speelmon Dague. She attended school in Ekalaka and graduated from Carter County High School in 1943. She worked for Ray Nickerson in the Carter County Clerk and Recorder's office for a few months after graduation. She left Ekalaka with friends of her parents for San Francisco, CA, and worked as a secretary fo...
Delbert Lee Justice, 89, of Ekalaka died Friday, April 10, 2020, at his home. He was born February 16, 1931, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, to James Richard Justice and Hilja Adrianne Jeremiason-Justice. He graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1949. Delbert later attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, studying electrical engineering, and, as a member of the South Dakota National Guard, was called into service by the U.S. Army during...
Tamara Ann "Tammy" Meade, age 71, of Ekalaka passed away peacefully on Monday, April 13 at Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City. Tammy was born on August 16, 1948 in Baker, Montana the youngest of five children. She grew up in Ekalaka where she attended grade school and high school. Tammy loved playing baseball as a child and pitched better than most of the boys her age. She often said that if she could have played one sport, it would have been baseball. At the age of 10,...
Note: This article is the final in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. Each story features a founder, their story and items they have donated. Without the vision, intellect and orderly mind of Walter H. Peck, The Geological Society might have just become caretakers of collections of unidentified fossils and artifacts. His curiosity and love of natural history compelled him to not only collect, but to understand the history behind...
My memories article this time will be a little different as I will write about several individuals who I knew, played sports with, or who brought back memories of years ago. The past articles in the Eagle about "Carter County Greats" was great, informative and I agree. Those people triggered names of individuals that I would like to share with you, including the Eagle article about George Yelloweyes. I remember when I was a basketball referee and he came with the Miles City...
Diana Dee Kirby passed away at her home on March 23, 2020 with her daughter, granddaughter and best friend Baby Dog. Diana was born August 27, 1931 in her grandparents' house in the community of Ridgway, Montana. She grew up there with her grandparents, Carl & Lola Burch and her mother Crystal Palmer. Her parents later divorced and remarried and to these unions she gained two brothers and two sisters. Her grandad Carl, known as Papa was a big influence on her life. She...
Leland (Lee) D. Morrison, aka Bendy during his youth, passed away in Chandler, Arizona on February 16, 2020. He was 78 years old. Born and raised in Ekalaka, Montana, he graduated from Carter County High School in 1959 then moved to Homer, Alaska where he hired on with the airline industry. Job opportunities took him took Seattle and finally Phoenix in 1973 where he retired in 2001 after 36 years in the airline industry. He loved traveling and visiting with family and...
