A Step Back in Time

100 Years Ago
Sentinel Butte Review October 22, 1926
John Pierzina netted $85 profit from one acre of ground in the driest of season of years, he declares. Two years ago, while working on his farm, he lost a wallet containing $85. Thursday, while plowing he uncovered the same wallet. The local bank has sent the badly mildewed bills to the treasury department at Washington for redemption.
The Getts poultry car, for which many farmers had been waiting, was on track at Beach Saturday and in Sentinel Butte Monday. At Beach, 6,000 fowl were purchased and a few were turned away after the car was filled. Another car was filled at Sentinel Butte, with a steady string of rigs and cars in line nearly the entire day.
Six potatoes, the combined weight exceeding eight pounds were raised on the Z. Metzger farm near St. Carmel, ND.
75 Years Ago
Golden Valley News
November 1, 1951
Einar Olstad of the Sentinel Butte rural community and a well known artist, was one of two artists featured in the story “North Dakota Comes Into it’s Own” in the September 1951 issue of the National Geographic Magazine. Olstad is a rancher-blacksmith artist, known to countless visitors for the handsome wrought iron decorations to both the North and South units of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. During the depression years of the thirties with their cattle having been shipped, killed or died and there was little ranch work, he tried oil paints with cooperation of his sister Olga. This spurred him on and he won honor and distinction to his section of the state by his true representations on canvas of western ND.
Three out of four farms in North Dakota are now reported to have central station electric service.
If you are in the market for a small radio for kitchen or bedroom, stop at Larry’s Radio Service located one block east and half block south of hospital.
50 Years Ago
Golden Valley News
November 4, 1976
Carl Johnson of Sentinel Butte was re-elected president of the G.V. County Farmers Union and Pete Wirtzfeld was elected vice president.
The Beach High School junior-senior class play will be presented Nov. 18 and 19. The play entitled “Hillbilly Weddin” is directed by Glenn Turner and features a cast of 16 Beach juniors and seniors. Paw (Maurice Hardy) and Maw (Mary Hollar) want to “marry off” their oldest daughter Ceely (Cindy Zook) who refuses to bathe and keeps pet rattlesnakes. The habits of Ceely do not make her very marriage-able. A stranger passing through, Dr. Ronald Maxwell (Mike Hardy), is a man that Ceely wants, with Paw set to perform a shotgun wedding. A feud erupts with a hilarious surprise ending with, the Rev. Art Brown officiating the ceremony.
25 Years Ago
Golden Valley News
October 25, 2001
The final canvas for the Beach-Medora phase of the Southwest Pipeline Project is currently underway. Cities included are Golva, Beach, Sentinel Butte, Medora and Fryburg.
Construction on the Beach Visitors and Rest Area has been underway for several months with a Nov. 30 scheduled completion date.
Staff members at Beach High School showed their support to MaryAnn Schillo by wearing hats during class on Oct. 17. Schillo teaches math at Beach High School and is recovering from cancer.
Quote of the Week:
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” -Abraham Maslow