Mark,Allen does not have email, but I will relay your message to him when I call him tomorrow.Allen did have a reputation for fast cars that could out run most anything. He had quite a collection in the back farm yard of my folks farm too. One day my mother got discussed with the whole collection and had a car crusher come in and remove the whole lot. There are many many Allen Stokes car stories all of which he confesses up to today too. His side of those stories are very interesting too.Gary
Hello Kim,How wonderful it is to hear from you. Unfortunately your email address and picture did not follow with your posting. Please send your email address and that picture directly to my email address gws123456@hotmail.com once I get your email address it will be our pleasure to add you to our email distribution.Yes, the Stone garage has been mentioned frequently. Many of our readers will remember your parents too. I am very sure that all of the Dunseith/Omemee/Willow city Fugere families are related. Where does your family fit into this relationship. Francis lived in Bottineau and Duane and Darrell were Dunseith. Lois Tweten is also one of our readers. I am assuming your mother and her are related too?Many of our readers will be very happy to see your posting.Gary
Fugere. My grandparents were Art & Josie Fugere. I have been enjoying your
website and would like to be added to your distribution list. I am
researching my families genealogy and have found your website very helpful.
I am also attaching a photo of my Dad in his Stone Garage in Dunseith. I
see there have been many posts about it. I am wondering if anyone has a
picture of the portable Fish House my Dad made that Dick Johnson was
talking about in his 8-1-2010 comment. Posted on August 1, 2010
Main street in Dunseith. I remember that in the late ?50s or,early ?60s it
was run by Dale Fugere. Dad bought a yellow ?51 Studebaker,from Dale at the
garage. The car had been owned by Carl Lider and must,have been traded in or
left there to be sold by Dale. One of the things,that Dale had and had
probably made there was a portable fish house for,ice fishing. He removed
the front fenders and hood from an old Hudson,car and then welded a hitch to
the front to tow it to the lake. He had,painted it dark blue and had it
sitting across the street between the,jail and the Corner Bar. I think this
would have been around 1960, if I,remember right. It was at this same time
that Dale and his wife lost,their first born son. I believe the little boy
was named Miles. He was,explaining it to my dad in the garage when I was
along. I remember how,sad it was to hear him tell about it. Dale might have
been the last,operator of the garage, as a garage. I think Orlan Fuchs
bought it and,opened it as a bar after the Corner Bar burned and it was a
bar until it,closed many years later.
When they get there, St. Peter says,
‘We only have one rule here in heaven:
Don’t step on the ducks!!!’
So they enter heaven, and sure enough,
There are ducks all over the place.
It is almost impossible not to step on a duck,
And although they try their best to avoid them,
The first woman accidentally steps on one.
Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw.
St. Peter chains them together and says,
‘Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to
Spend eternity chained to this ugly man!’
The next day,
The second woman steps accidentally on a duck
And along comes St. Peter,
Who doesn’t miss a thing.
With him is another extremely ugly man.
He chains them together
With the same admonishment as for the first woman.
The third woman has observed all this and,
Not wanting to be chained
For all eternity to an ugly man, is very,
VERY careful where she steps.
She manages to go months
Without stepping on any ducks,
But
One day St.Peter comes up to her
With the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on
….. Very tall, long eyelashes, muscular.
St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The happy woman says,
‘I wonder what I did to deserve being
Chained to you for all of eternity?’
The guy says,
‘I don’t know about you,
But I stepped on a
Duck.