05/04/2011

Reply from Barbara Kalk Lopez (65): Inver Grove Heights, MN
 

Gary,

A correction: I didn’t go to school until 5th and 6th grade. I needed speech training, because Dunseith didn’t have any speech therapist. So I was sent to Minot, 1st and 2nd grade. I stayed in 2 different foster homes. The 3rd gade in Fargo at an orphanage. In 4th grade I went with my sister Louella to an Indian boarding school in Chamberlain, South Dakota.

I also remember some time at Belocourt also with Louella but I don’t believe it was a full year.

Again, my favorite teacher was Miss Nordine.

Just thought I would let you know to the best of my recollection.

God bless you all.

Kathy Barbara Kalk Lopez (65)

Barbara, I didn’t attend Dunseith until HS. You and your sister Lorraine were both in our class when I started HS in the fall of 1961. Barbara, we remember you for being you and not pretending to be anyone other than you. Do you remember the school play we were in our freshman year, I think. It was a community play, directed by Mr. Grossman, that our class put on at city hall for the community. This was a mandatory play that we had to be in too. I wasn’t much for theater performance, like a lot of the rest of you. I don’t remember my characters name, but I remember my one of my lines well “Lezzy, Lezzy, my dream Girl“. You were Lezzy. As I remember our whole class was involved with this play. Class of 65, what are your recollections of this play? I remember City Hall being pretty filled for the evening of this play. Gary

 
 
 
New home
Message from Sybil Johnson: Chippewa Falls, WI
 
Gary,
We have to change my location. Im no longer in Cheyenne, Wyoming; but in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. This is where some of my family are.
Have a great day, everyone.
sybil johnson
 
 
 
Wes Schnieder – Moses/Caroline DesJarlais
Reply from Vickie Metcalfe (70): Bottineau, ND
 
Ron. & Gary,
What a world we live in to find that quick response!
Wes had never told me that story before.
Not alot of people around who recall stuff from all those years gone by.
Wes is 90. Sometimes, if i just sit and patiently listen, I get lucky and he will retell a story.
Then, I commit it to memory so I can share it on the blog.

He seems to like to have me come visit because he knows I will connect with him on Dunseith.
Yesterday, was the first I’ve ever heard of him asking me if I knew a Moses DesJarlais.
I thought but didn’t say,
“Hmm. If he worked for Mr. Schneider, the elder, he is probably gone.”
So,”I said to Wes, I don’t recall a Moses DesJarlais, is it ok for me to put this out on the blog?”
He readily said , “Yes.” He was kind of excited.

So thank-you again Ron.
Did your great aunt/Grandma Caroline also raise your dad’s siblings?
I will print out this response and deliver in the next couple days.
I know he will enjoy reading it, again and again.

I’m curious and hoping Wes will describe those baskets Mrs. Moses DesJarlais made from grass.

Tonight, when i went out around 5:30 with the dogs, Wes was chopping wood. I know I couldn’t wield an ax anymore!
He at 90 has alot more years under his belt than I do, still continues to do those things he has done for probably 80 + years.
Later, Vickie
 
 
 
Reply to Dick Johnson’s Photo posted yesterday:
From Mark Schimetz (70): Rolette, ND
 

The old Building, I was thinking it may have been Dan McCoy’s bar. My Dad, Louis and Fortune Berube rented the rooms above the bar. I remember Dad talking about having 15 white Shirts to keep pressed and ready as he was working as a Bartender. And the usual annoyances of sharing an apartment. It had something to do with Fortunes Socks. But I am sure Louis caused his share of annoyances for Fortune.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Dan McCoy’s Bar – Picture posted yesterday
Reply from Dick Johnson (68): Dunseith, ND
Gary and Friends,

Lloyd Awalt nailed another one! It is Dan McCoy’s Bar on the east
side of Main Street. The picture below shows the very south end of
Hosmer’s Dry Goods in the very left side of the picture. Bob Hosmer
built the Super Value in the vacant lot between the two buildings. When
the bar was torn down, Don Hosmer built the laundromat on that site. So
goes the succession of businesses. The other photo below shows the
small gas station in front of the Dakota Hotel and the cabins behind it.
The car on the right of this picture is a 1949 Ford so it has to be at
least ’49 or later. I think my grandparents, Henry and Myrtle Olson,
might have lived in the apartment upstairs over McCoy’s Bar or possibly
my own parents did. I can’t remember for sure and Mom said they moved
many times when they were first married so it could have been them.
Thanks Gary!

Dick


 

 

 
 
 
 
Posting of the day
From Allen Richard (65): Midland, MI
 
 

UNIVERSAL LAWS
>
>
1.Law of Mechanical Repair
After your hands become coated with grease,
your nose will begin to itch and you’ll have to pee.

2.Law of GravityAny tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

>3.
Law of ProbabilityThe probability of being watched is directly
proportional to the stupidity of your act


>4.
Law of Random Numbers– If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

>5.
Law of the AlibiIf you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire..

>6.
Variation LawIf you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works everytime).

>7.
Law of theBathWhen the body is fully immersed in water,
the telephone rings.


>8.
Law of Close EncountersThe probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

>9.
Law of the ResultWhen you try to prove to someone that
a machine won’t work, it will.


>
.12.The Coffee Law– As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffeeis cold.

>14.
Law of Physical SurfacesThe chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich
landing face down on a floor, are directly correlated to the newness and cost of
the carpet or rug.


>18.
Wilson’s Law of Commercial
Marketing Strategy
As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.


>19.Doctors’ LawIf you don’t feel well, make an appointment
to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better. But don’t make
an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

>——————————————————-

A doctor examining a woman who had been rushed to the Emergency Room, took the
husband aside, and said, ‘I don’t like the looks of your wife at all.’
‘Me neither doc,’ said the husband.
‘But she’s a great cook and really good with the kids.’

>
———————————-

An old man goes to the Wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he has been
living with for the last 40 years.
The Wizard says, ‘Maybe, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were
used to put the curse on you.’
The old man says without hesitation, ‘I now pronounce you man and wife.’

>
———————————–

While shopping for vacation clothes, my husband and I passed a display of bathing suits. It had been
at least ten years and twenty pounds since I had even considered buying a bathing
suit, so I sought my husband’s advice.
‘What do you think?’ I asked.. ‘Should I get a bikini or an all-in-one?’
‘Better get a bikini,’ he replied ‘You’d never get it all in one.’ He’s still in intensive care.

>
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And, my favorite
is:

The graveside
service just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed
by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in
the distance.
The little
old man looked at the preacher and calmly said, ‘Well……she’s there.’