Shelby High School - Coyote Yearbook (Shelby, MT)

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1 os 0'rF V1 I' ORP W URI! We th Students of Shelby High School pr sent thls volume of the Coyote, hoping that lt will become a part of any happy remem hrance you may have of S H S Everything of interest and 1mport men vxhleh h'1'i hippenul during the school year ending Mly 11 1997 we hue Qmltmored to retold We ire sure you will lpprumtm uhxt we haxe tried to do, and -zslx you to owrlook that which we hawe fuln l lll doing There 'Irc many pmopln who haw helped err ltly to mlka thw hook possllmlm, Ind we xuwh them to uupt our profound g,r11 fum o Fllltlpll X P ll lrtlll W1 ire mu rtmd or his lnvalullmlc 1 l ui suggestions to the peoplm of this community, and of outside sutiol s md hope th xt the comphtcd book will he '1 partial reeompcnw m thc lr many klndmbscs The Fdltor INlll ll KNOX I WI H9 4 xX I Q11 1 111111 rXIlr1l 1111 ge Three ' ' 1 , , ,,,,,,-he , ,f,,',,, 7 S W W ' . , e '-' , 1 ' ' , ' v ' ' 1 - z - .. . -1 '-' - 'A z ', QLL, 1 2 1 1 1- 1 1 1- - s 12 1 L- 1 Y' i 11'- 1 V 2 V I K K' ' ' I ' ' Q r Yi Z l XC K x I x 'Q 1 ' iz 2 'h It - ,Z 1 ,. 215 11. 'I' P' 1 '. . Is' '21'i?l1 1' '. 2 -zifzrl .' ' sg - 1 ', ' .' ir, who so kindly gave advertisements, We tender our sincerest thanks. Z E . 1 1 - 1' .I C ' . f, 1. PR 1 ' ' . YI-:I J '. , ,KR'l'IN ll SA Hill .X1'Il4ll'll1f', V1-rszlill -S. Vj. 111111. l4l'l1HlIU1l, Ulliw. l'1ix'., A. H.. IEVIT. l,:111e S1-mi11:11'y, 1'i11r'i1mz11i, Hhio, 11113 X 1 ian. Hhio, Se11i11:11'5'. 12. Iv, 11114 'l'l11'1-11 51-:urs tr-1 1' ' u A H-

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Page TWO COYOTF Evhtrahnn To the public, as represented by the School Board we sincerely dedicate this volume I VS I IWANS flllllfllllll ARIHII WIMPKX Sl I IX Vlul KR! KXI- Ihr O O . Y . . . , , .-T . , -1 ' Ju. 1: ' ' ' - , ' 11, .. '. .'0Nq .l. H. , : .. .' 1. '- k.

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Page Four f'0Y0'l'F Shelby The Home of Our School Early ln the year 1880 a few whlte settlers ml grated to this northern sectlon of Montana These brave people were always ln danger from the In dlans, but finally succeeded ln startlng ranches ln the land east of the Rocky Mountams The majorlty of these people were stockmen and some of these har dy ploneers secured ranches on the Marlas River About slx years later the Gault Mlhlhg Company made a treaty wlth the Plegan Indlans and sent thelr surveyors out to survey for a rallroad In the year 1890 a narrow gauge road began operatlng between Lethbrldge Canada and Great Falls Montana This passed through what IS now Shelby However thls name was not applled tlll a contractor by that name came out when the Great Northern Company bought the narrow guage lme and bullt the great trans contlnental system from St Paul to Seattle Shelby IS the home of Our School It IS sltuated about one hundred mlles east of the Rocky Mount alns and IS some thlrty mlles south of the Canadlan me When lt received the name Shelby was a mere settlement conslstlng of a sectlon house a store and a few other bulldlngs Thls first store was built in 1880 by C A WhltmlYC from whom lt was purcha ed ln 1894 by H F Guth Gradually the surrolrdln country changed from a stock TZISIUE sectlon to a farmmg' country It was ln 1908 that the last cattle passlng of the old days and the commg of the nu Shelby was lncorporated as a town ln 1910 lvl! James A Johnson belng elected fo fi t 'la r I 1914 Toole County was formed and Shelbv was made the County Seat As a passenger steps off the tlall 'xt Shelbv he may get a falr vlew of the centr 1 pa of the town We wlll see Maln Street whlch runs pa ahel ruth the load tracks and some half squ rc o thl south The County court House a one story r d ljll I- stluc t e fronts Mam Street Two departn ent stores a drug store bakery two grocery stores and hardware stores ale wlthln vlew Looklng northward the vls Our School, Its It has been s ld that Mighty Oaks from Llttle Acorns Grow That IS true of our Shelbv school The first school house ln thls sectlon known as the Sulllvan School was located about nlne mlles south east of the present town of Shelby It was three ye rs later ln 1898 that the newlv electel school ltor will see two modern hotel bulldlngs a bank and office bulldlng and a pleasant resldentlal section Along the r llroad tracks are two large gram eleva tors and the lumber yards If the vlsltor Wlll look up Mam Street to the extreme western part of town he wlll see two large school bulldlngs one housing the lower Grades and the other thc High School He would find the town llghted wlth electrlclty hav mg a good water and sewer system and telephone servlce Recently there has been conslderable work done to lnvestlgate the Oll deposlts ln thls sectlon of Mon tana At the well owned by the Gordon Campbell KCVIU Syndlcate a strlke of hlgh grade oll ln ver profitable quantltles has been made Thls lndlcates a vast d poslt whlch IS expected to make thls sectlon one of the largest fields ln the United States Shel by IS the very center of thls field and IS the Junctlo polnt of two rallroads therefore holdlng a very ad v 'ltageous posltlon ln thls sectlon of Montana There IS also a large lrrlgatlon project under way for thls sectlon whlch seems assured On Sep tember 4th 1919 an order was made ln the Dlstrlc' Court cre tlng an lrrlgatlon dlstrlct embraclng ar nroumat lv two hundred thousand acres of land ln Toole County and proposing to lmpound and use thereon over three hundred thousand acre feet of the waters of the Marlas rlver and ltS trlbutarles The pleted The land owners themselves are behlnd thls movement and lt promlses to be a large factor ln the development of thls reglon Shelby the home of our school IS the county seat and prlnclpal town of Toole County It IS the Junctlon polnt of two rallroads the Great Northern transcon tlnent l and the Burlington whlch runs North and South lt lS the tradlng polnt for a large agrlcultural sectlon and the Oll Clty of Northern Montana lt IS the ccntcr of a 1 rge lrrlgatlon prolect Take all of these polnts lnto conslderatlon and you can readlly ee that Shelbv wlll be a thrlvlng cltv ln the near future M K Sz M A 25 Past and Present board of Shelby planned a school ln town Thls board was composed of Mlke Connelly Pete Hughe and H F Guth They bought a one room bulldlng fl om Dr Clark and ln this elght puplls were enroll ed Wlth MISS MIHUIC Me bach of Choteau as teacre As the town grew another room was added and the Methodist Church was also used for some classes J J Q - . . . . , . - al. . - - . . , . , - . , , . . . . 1 . . . . - Y Y . , . C . . . V . . . U- . . , . Y - I. . . . . al K . . . . . I . . , . . . Q - . i ' ' 7 Y - . u . . , . i ,. 9 V . . . . . ., round-up was held near Shelby, which ma-rked the district is fully organized and the final survey com- - , ' 1' rs .. , ye . n . ' ' . . . B . i , I U . 3 . . . '. 'l . . ' ' , - , ,, ' ' a' xt f . ' :'- ' , ' 1 , t Y-4 1 lair - ' I i ' - ' ' 3 4 - ' c c, ' ' - . - 2 ' ' ' f . W y . ' E N H . . . . . l Y S n I . . . . . i A , V L . lk f nl. U . . . . M . . In - K I ' , i , 1 . , . . . . . I n . , - , . .M . . al p .A in 0' r l s . I . .