Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
by Mary Buchholz These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. 122 years ago — History of the Building of Belle Fourche Irrigation Dam and Project After a few years’ work on the projects, Widdle and Finley […]
Continue Readingby Mary Buchholz These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. 89 years ago Belle Fourche Bee September 18, 1936 PERSONALS –Donald Smith, Lon Brown, Lewis and Lowell Sisson left Tuesday morning by auto for Brookings, where […]
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by Mary Buchholz These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. 126 years ago Northwest Times October 5, 1899 It Was Expected Geo. Evans broke jail Tuesday evening. Sheriff Sweaney took him to the jail after supper, […]
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These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. 124 years ago Belle Fourche Bee September 19, 1901 Needs of Cattle Trails The rapid settling of the western ranges and the fencing of pastures along the ater courses […]
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by Mary Buchholz These articles come from newspaper microfilm from the Belle Fourche Public library, using a new microfilm reader and printer. The photographs are from the Tri-State Museum. From Pioneer Footprints BUILDING OF ORAMN DAM by Ralph Shaykett The survey for Orman Dam of the Belle Fourche Irrigation Project was made in 1905. Dimensions […]
Continue ReadingAccount of Belle Fourche Bank Robbery from Empty Saddles Forgotten Names, Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming by Doug Engebretson All the facts quoted here are footnoted from Belle Fourche Times, Deadwood Pioneer-Times, and Charles Kelly’s The Outlaw Trail: The Story of Butch Cassidy and “The Wild Bunch” When “the […]
Continue Readingby Linda Velder April 23, 1914 Butte County Commission met in regular quarterly meeting. E. A. Ritter, Wm. Schmele and T. F. Stevenson put in a report on the tour of inspecting of the Poor Farm roads. The Auditor was directed to advertise for bids for roads to and changes in buildings at […]
Continue ReadingApril 2, 1914 Mrs. W. C. Hill arrived Sunday from Egan and joined her husband Doctor Hill. Doctor & Mrs. Hill will live at the hospital and Doctor & Mrs. O. Clark will live at their claim southwest of town this summer. The doctors have formed a partnership. Tommy Brown of Vale was in town […]
Continue Reading125 years ago – Belle TIMES, March 16, 1899 NEW BLACK HILLS ROAD. The Illinois -Central Said to be Coming This Way Vermillion, S. D. March 14 – The Illinois-Central Railroad company has a corps of engineers at work in this country and it has been clearly established that the company intends to extend its […]
Continue ReadingMarch 19, 1914 A very enjoyable surprise farewell party was given for Rev. & Mrs. W. R. Sisson at their home, 4 miles west of town Thursday evening by their neighbors under the management of the Missionary Society of the Blaine Congregational Church. The couple are about to depart for their future home in […]
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