Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
Account 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 […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 26, 1914 The Literary meeting at the Langdon School was well attended. A good program was offered. The question debated: Resolved that the cow is more valuable that the horse. For Affirmative: Ira Shaw and Christy Sorenson and for the Negative: Chester Jenks and Harris Blakely. The discussion was given to the negative side. […]
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125 years ago – Belle TIMES, February 23, 1899 Quail for Butte County TIMES, February 23, 1899 Quail for Butte County Through the efforts of Attorney LaFleiche the sum of about $50.00 was subscribed by our local nimrods for the purpose of buying quail to plant in this vicinity. Deadwood sportsmen have experimented […]
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124 years ago THE TIMES March 2, 1899 GOOD FOR THE SOUL According to the Yankton Herald ExTreasurer Phillips has made an “open Confession” to having taken interest on the state funds, and furthermore he defies the state to recover it. The Herald says: In conversation with a prominent Huron attorney last week […]
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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 in most cases are from the Tri-State Museum. 125 years ago – Belle TIMES October 6, 1898 The Taxpayers of Butte County You will please take notice that during the month of September the […]
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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 in most cases are from the Tri-State Museum. 125 years ago – BELLE TIMES August 25, 1898 Rough Riders Dissatisfied Camp Thomas, Aug. 23 – There is a great deal of dissatisfaction among the […]
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