Coal Hill district was created in 1916. Joe Gerig was the first teacher. The school board was G. Sirucek, Anton Heil and James Kellner. In 1920 an isolated territory in T19N R23E was added to the district. In 1939 #52 Joslin was attached to the district. On January 20, 1947 Coal Hill was annexed to #131 Central School. Some of the local people that taught there were: Winnie McNeil, Viola Kilpatrick, Mabelle Woodcock, Margaret Stephens, Helen Jordon and Mrs. W.G. Braiser. 

  This district was created in 1914. The first trustees were John Drake, A. W. Warner and Frank Pospisil. There were several schools in the district.
  East Box Elder ran until in the 40's. Some of the teachers were Mary Hughes Yeager, Helen Kudzia Jordon and Helen Kostaryz Siroky.
  Bear Creek ran for a few years. The teachers were Elizabeth (Betty) Francis, Jane McGinnis, Ada Christine and Benjamine Pierce. The families in this area were: Warner, Bobenmoyer, Kennett, Olson and Orr.
  Boulevard school stood near Joe Siroky's lane. It ran in the 30's. Some of the teachers were Nora Kinsella Lund and Joe Gerig.
  In 1947 Coal Hill district combined with this district. The schools were combined into a central school called "Central". The last teacher was Mr. Kelly in 1963-64. Some of the teachers were: Mae James Jackson, Stella Myers, Betty Lou Anderson, Mabelle Larson Woodcock, Elsie Jones, Ernie Harrison and Beatrice Arthur.
  In 1965 #131 was consolidated with #207 Indian Butte.

  What was known as the Madison Boulevard in the homestead days is that straight stretch of land extending from west of Horynas going east, so called because it was long and level and -- perfect for a buggy race perhaps?!! Lewis Madison, who homesteaded in the area is probably where the Boulevard got its name. ^{P. 115} 

  Martin Benes and his wife, Caroline, homesteaded in the Roy area in 1913, having come here from Bontimer, Missouri. They were originally from Czechoslovakia.
  There were eight children in their family; Lambert and Marie (who each also had a homestead), Ed, William, Jim, Martin Jr., Helen and Della.
  Lambert married Lidmilla Hruska (who was originally from South Dakota) in 1914. Two of their eleven children, Paul and Marie, were born while they lived on the homestead.
  In 1919 the family moved to Hilger and then to the Moltown (Molt) area. Marie who is in her 90's and Della, in her 80's, are the only two of Martin and Caroline's children who are still living in 1988.
  Caroline's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martinek, also lived on the homestead with them for awhile. Martinek was a carpenter.
  Paul, his wife Jessie and their small daughter, Linda, lived on the Koliha place for a year in 1954, when they had it leased. They then moved back to Christina and leased a place there. Linda is married to Dean Komarek and resides in the Roy area with her family; they have two children, Shawn and Paulette.^{P. 116}

  (There are several newspaper items about the Bezouskas. None of them agree on dates. I have tried to, in the following account, give as accurate a picture as possible. IMW)
  Vaclav Bezouska, a cousin of John Maruska Sr., was born on September 5, 1879 in Lubino, Czechoslovakia. His wife, Caroline Pakerovia, was born on October 25, 1889 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She attended schools there. In 1906 she and her mother moved to Omaha, Nebraska. She and Vaclav were married either on August 10, 1916 in Omaha or in 1915 in Lewistown. They moved to Salem, Oregon and lived there for 16 years, before coming to Roy where they ranched. One source stated that Vaclav homesteaded in 1918, while they were living in Great Falls for two years; another that they moved to the area from Oregon in 1937.
  The Bezouskas had one daughter, Gladys (Dunnwebber).
  They raised turkeys at their place, which was east of Roy and a news item told of a time when Caroline was bitten by a rattlesnake while out on the ranch.
  The Bezouska's moved to Lewistown in 1943. Vaclav had palsy and was ill for many years before passing away on November 6, 1953, at the age of 74.
  Caroline worked at St. Josephs Hospital and was a housekeeper for the Catholic priests. She retired in 1958 and passed away April 28, 1981, at the age of 92. Both Caroline and Vaclav are buried in Calvary Cemetery.

  Frank Cabelka and his younger brother, Robert, immigrated to the U.S. from Veletov, Bohemia around 1906. Frank was the eldest of 8 children; Robert, one of the youngest. They never saw their family again.
  In 1911 Frank homesteaded in the Coal Hill area, east of Roy. Robert settled in St. Louis where he apprenticed as a tailor, later moving to Rochester, New York where he worked at his trade.
  Frank married Anna Posik, of New York, on May 5, 1913. Anna had a son, whom Frank adopted, and this son also went by the name of Frank Cabelka.
  Anna died in 1923 at the age of 41 of tuberculosis and is buried in the Roy Cemetery. Young Frank was in his early teens when his mother passed away. Frank Sr. raised him and when he was old enough he joined the army (in the late 20's or early 30's) and never returned.
  Robert never lived in Montana but he made several trips to visit his brother. He acquired a quit claim deed for some land from William Sirucek, dated March 11, 1936. This land, he leased to an oil company for several years, and then leased it out for farming.
  Frank continued farming until his death in 1957. He had sold his land (or a part of it) before his death. He is buried in Lewistown.
  Robert passed away in 1986 and is buried in Rochester.
  Robert and Frank's farmland is now owned by Robert's daughter, Marie Christensen, and is farmed by Larry Kalina.

  Ignac Cizek was born 31 January 1851 in Czechoslovakia and Marie was born 6 December 1856, also in the same country. They were married in 1879 and came to America on their wedding trip. They first settled in Chicago and lived there for eighteen years and then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where they stayed until 1910, when they came to Central Montana and made this area their home for the rest of their lives.
  They homesteaded east of Roy at the above location which was next to Frank Vodicka, who was a nephew of Mrs. Cizek. They spent several years on the home stead, but had a residence in Lewistown where Mr. Cizek operated a shoe repair shop at the corner of First and East Main, in the building where the B & H Grocery was located. He ran his shop for twenty-five years.
  Marie Cizek died 4 February 1936 at the age of 79. Ignac Cizek was 87 when he died 5 January 1939. Both interred at the Lewistown City Cemetery.

  Alois Dockal was born August 3, 1882 in Litomial, Czechoslovakia. He came to the United States in 1909 and worked as a farm laborer in Kansas and Nebraska. In 1912 he came to Montana and homesteaded in the Roy area.
  Like most homesteaders, Alois made many friends and one he met was Joe Swoboda. Both were bachelors.
  Joe asked Alois to stay with him. While the two ^{P. 117} bachelors lived in Joe's shack; the household chores, cooking and dishwashing were shared. Joe washed dishes, Alois dried the dishes, all the while whistling a tune. Joe was not especially fond of Alois' music, so--.
  Joe had built Alois a homestead shack, one with a pitched roof. Alois moved to his residence to prove up on the land, but he didn't have any horses or machinery. His neighbor, Joe Kviz, broke up the necessary land for him. Joe then farmed his own land, and that of Dockal's, so now Alois did the cooking while his friend, Joe, farmed.
  When Kviz married Anna Kasala, Alois started to farm his own land. Kviz passed away and another neighbor moved on the Kviz land. He was Jake Bedlan, so now Alois had another helping neighbor. (Bedlan later married Anna Kviz.)
  Mr. Dockal was a very short person. People wondered how he could reach a harness to put it on his horses.
  Dockal was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge, since it's beginning in 1925. He hardly ever missed a meeting, which was held at the hall, once a month. He walked the four miles up and four miles back home, unless someone passing by gave him a ride.
  On April 5, 1964, Alois Dockal passed away in Lewiston. He had no survivors in the U.S. They had all remained in Czechoslovakia. The Dockal land was sold to James Kellner and is now owned by Perry Kalal.

  I was born September 28, 1912. We came to Montana when I was four years old. Dad came ahead in an emigrant car. They were called that because you took everything in it. I remember them loading it. Oats, hay, a plow disc and harrow, 2 wagons, 4 horses, 2 pigs, chickens, cow and calf, furniture, some real good stuff; everything to start a farm with, and of course, dad had to go along to tend the animals.
  Mother and we three boys followed a few days later in the passenger train; a real experience for me. Mother had her hands full, so a nice man took me in tow and helped mother with the other two.
  I don't recall much of the trip from Suffolk, which is where we met dad, but I recall the little log house we moved into on our homestead. It was small, with a dirt floor and a dirt roof. We wintered there. Dad built a barn for the livestock and a place to keep the feed.
  We had a lot of snow that first winter. Things got pretty tough. Dad knew very little about the country, but I remember once he took his old shotgun and came back with an old sage rooster and a big porcupine.
  Range cattle ran at large everywhere, so we kids couldn't venture far outside. We had all been talking about Christmas. A rider came by, it was late in the evening and the snow was coming down. He wore a big buffalo coat and I was sure it was Santa Claus. He was probably the first cowboy I had ever seen. He stayed the night and at the first light was gone before we kids got up. He layed his big coat in front of the kitchen range and that's where he slept. But dad did have a good barn for the horse, and feed.
  Our milk cow would wander away with the range cattle. Many a mile my dad walked after that cow, but after that night those range cattle were kept away and the cow didn't stray anymore.
  When spring came my mother and dad made a garden by the creek where we could carry water to the plants. I can remember how hard they worked putting everything in. Mother had started tomatoes and cabbage plants and we would go down there everyday and carry water to them. Some two weeks went by and everything was growing great. Came the middle of May and a big snow came and of course that ended the garden. That was the first time I can remember my mother crying; she was ready to go back to Illinois.
  We kids started to a kind of school. We had to walk about 2 miles. It was held in a little homestead shack belonging to the teacher. We learned to read and count and write, but there was a lot of Sunday school too.
  Dad couldn't make anything on the homestead so we moved some 2 miles east. We had a nice house and barn and a good chicken house. It was here that my grandfather, my father's dad, Alexander McClemins (Mack) Harrell, came to stay with us. (Petranek now has this place. The homestead is part of the Horse Ranch.) He and my dad dug a well for water and walled it with flat sandstone which they hauled with a team and wagon. The well turned out to be a great well, good cool water. The well was about 30 feet deep.   We had a lot of great experiences there. The winter of 1918 was a hard winter. The flu epidemic hit and many people died. Everyone helped everyone else. I can still remember how sick I was, as was the rest of the family. I had an infant sister, Martha Ann, who died in that epidemic.
  In the spring of 1919 dad had a sale, then we moved to Kendall which at that time was turning out a lot of gold. Dad worked hauling timber for the mine.
  I started to a real school here. The town was quite well inhabited. My teacher had three grades and almost 60 students. How she managed I don't know, but I'11 say I learned and real good too.
  It was in Kendall that my oldest sister, Marie, was born.
  We moved to a ranch where dad was working. It was about 2 miles, by trail, to Kendall and 3 miles by road. We three boys walked to school in the spring and fall and rode horseback in the winter. Then as we got larger we drove a horse on a heavy two wheeled cart with which we also delivered our cream to the railroad station. ^{P. 118} Dad milked 12 to 18 head of cows.
  In 1924 we moved to the old Fergus Horse Ranch with a big bunch of cattle and also did much grain farming and haying. I attended various schools and worked on the ranch as a hand. I never had a full year of school. By now I was around 13 or 14 years old. It was the same old story, we survived by milking a bunch of cows and we had to go to Roy to buy groceries and deliver cream and eggs. BY now I could handle a team pretty well so we'd take the buck board and team and go to town. The buck board had a top. It was pretty fancy. We'd feed our team at noon, wait for the cream check, buy supplies and return home, about 12 miles, one way.
  The ranch was sold so we moved back to Hilger and Kendall. By now, no school was left so we attended school in Hilger.
  When spring came, this was 1927-28, I didn't pass out of the 8th grade. School was held in different houses. A school district had been formed so it wasn't so far to school. By now I had two more brothers and a sister.
 The mischief we got into, no one can imagine. We had been to several rodeos and this was upper most in our minds. We conceived every way in the world to get something to buck. We built a big corral and after getting all our own cattle broke to ride we started slipping a few head of range cattle in, that belonged to a large ranch, and that ran loose all over the mountain.
  Sometimes things have to be fixed and dad had just had his saddle repaired which had cost him a pretty penny. New strings, new sheep skin. We had gotten a big steer in, so we got dad's newly repaired saddle and got the big steer in the chute. He was big enough to carry two people. We put the saddle on. My brother, Butch, was to ride him. I was to open the chute. My other brother, Jake, was to ride with Butch, holding the old steer down. But when I opened the chute, Jake cleverly stayed behind. Well that steer dumped Butch and jumped over the fence and started running through the brush. The saddle, by now, was under his belly. He was kicking and running and that new lining was really getting torn up. The strings were being broken and we were running after him trying to catch him. If the trees hadn't stopped him, he probably would have been going yet. Needless to say we sure had to pay for that saddle, with a good spanking.
  My brother Butch was going to high school in Hilger, by now, so when the fall work was done I also started to school. We rode that 7 miles every morning and at night. I was breaking small horses for a fellow. It didn't take many trips to school to gentle them down. But when it came the last of February, one morning when I went to school I kept right on going. And never went back. Butch went on to graduate; I went to work for a fellow who had a broken hip. His name was Harry Baulch, a moose of a man. When he got well I went to work for Eno Jensen, at Hilger. I worked all spring and summer, then was fired. I worked for several other people, then dad decided I should have a crop of my own, so we got it all seeded. It was a 50 bushel crop for sure. We were farming two places at the time.
  One afternoon dad and I went to get the horse to bring the binder home so we could cut my crop. We just got the horse in and it started to hail. Now I've never seen it hail in the mountains, but boy that was a hail storm. Killed chickens, tore off shingles, even killed some of the trees, and my wheat field, needless to say, was completely gone. The ground was as bare as a summer fellowed field.
  So I rode for a cattle outfit for a few years and had a lot of great experiences. The name of the two fellows who owned the big spread near the place the Denton road crosses Warm Spring Creek were Disbrow and McVey.
  Wages was 80 cents a day, board and tobacco. In the spring after the main herd was gone we would move the bulls and late calvers. We would have a herd of some 25 to 150 head, 55 to 70 bulls. This job would fall to me and a couple of other guys. When they had been moved it was back to the ranch to move saddle horses.
  By now I had met and adopted a family by the name of Zahn. They had a large corral that could be seen for miles and many an outfit stopped there to rest and get a good home cooked meal.
  Holding cattle that are dry is one thing, but to bed them down and keep them overnight is quite a job. Once we were down to a bit of' hard bread and some reboiled coffee, as the mud holes tasted better with coffee in it. Going across Lukins Flat the horses got to the water holes first and had rolled and pawed in them.
  The horses weren't gentle. My partner Tom Blair got bucked off out of Hilger aways and he was off his rocker two days and then didn't feel too sharp. We were five days travel from Hilger and then three days to Hilger. It was quite a trip. But how sweet it was when Tom stood up and said, "There's our destination". It didn't take long to get packed and underway. It was a gradual slope so the cattle moved pretty fast. We turned the pack horse loose and he went straight to the corral. It was open range so we dropped the cattle and went ahead. They had smelled the water so they came quite quickly.
  Grandma Zahn, as everyone called her, had just had fried chicken dinner for about twenty-two cowboys. The CBC had arrived with five to six hundred horses and John Mayberry was there with his crew and about 300 head of horses. But there was still plenty left to eat. This was my home away from home for many years.
  The next two summers and winters I spent there in the Crooked Creek drainage. I was riding for Disbrow and McVey, yet. They shipped some drouthy cattle from Miles City and we had to look after these. Larry Jordan came with them and a drift fence, about 10 or 15 miles long, had to be built.
  Summers I rode, winters I mostly stayed at the Zahns, helping where I could.
  The outfit leased the old Fergus Horse Ranch which by now was mostly hay. I was in charge of breaking ^{P. 119} work horses and haying, either one a big job.
  After I left there I tried another stab at farming. This was in the Armells area. I had a terrible time getting the crop in. The tractor broke down and I had to hire it done. Me and tractors were at odds. I worked on the home Fergus ranch. A man by the name of McKenzie operated it.
  One evening after work I rode over to my home and discovered that the grasshoppers had eaten everything in sight. We finished haying, which didn't take long, as the hoppers came on there too. I then went to fighting fire.
  That fall we went to Idaho to look for work. Dad went to Idaho ahead of me. It was 1936. In Montana a person could make $2 a day -- in Idaho one could make $6 a day. We worked in the beet and potato fields. There were seven of us in the crew: myself, Jake, Butch, Ernie Hartman, Bill Letty and two others.
  After harvest, we moved the family to Idaho Falls. I worked the first winter feeding fat lambs for a big outfit. In the spring I helped dad and rented an 80 acre farm, joining my dad's, and had a good crop. I worked in the spud cellars till the last of January, then went to California.
  I went to work for a big outfit that farmed something like 30,000 acres around Bakersfield. Dad broke his leg so I went back to be with him. We finished out the year there then moved 50 miles northwest to an old lake bed called Mud Lake.
  After awhile we went to farming for ourselves. Dad ran the potato digger. We needed potato pickers. Nona was one of those hired.

[Ernest and Nona met and courted in the potato fields! They were married July 22, 1940]
  That fall we were on Dad's place. The oldest boy was born during the time I was driving truck, hauling wheat from the dry farm for Nona's step-dad's cousins.
  The next spring we started to develop the raw land. The wind would blow the sand so bad a person could build a big ditch and the next morning it would all be gone. Finally we got 200 acres of peas growing but the wind never forgot us. My brother, Harold, and I started to combine these peas. We were getting about 21 bushels to the acre, but the ground was covered. One of the fellows who had the lease on the land then hired seven tractors and mowers. They cut all those peas. We got a thresher in there and salvaged as many as possible after the wind blew them into ditches, fence rows and what not. We salvaged four bushels per acre. But we did have a large herd of hogs and they grew fat on those shelled peas.
  Ernest rode in a lot of rodeos. Nona liked the rodeos. Ernest was one of the better riders, simply because of coming from central Montana, where he 'had' to stay on. The last rodeo he ever rode in--was his last because of a near accident. The horse tripped near the sidelines where Nona and the baby were sitting and almost fell on them. "That took the rodeo outs me," said Ernest, "but all of my kids rodeoed."
  After that we moved to Montana. Ernest had a half section of land and after working for the PN Cattle Co. we moved to the plot of ground, got sheep and started keeping house.
  Ernest came back in an emigrant car; Nona and the two boys, Lewis and Tom, followed later, by bus. We came in November of 1943, the day after the school house burnt down. Ernest's homestead was 12 miles east of Roy, between Ernest Zahns and Larry Jordans. We lived there until 1948. Ernest worked for Hugh Ford, building darns and also for John Rindal. Then we moved over the Valentine road, so that Tom and Lewis would be closer to school.
  We farmed a little and raised a few cows. Ernest also went to work on a drilling rig. He first worked for Cottrell, then he went to work for a big siesmographing outfit. He worked for them until 1955. We then moved to Winifred where he was once again working for Murray Cottrell. After about a year we moved back to the ranch for a short time then we sold it to Ed and Chet Trusty in the spring of 1956. We moved to Lewistown. All of our children were born in Roy, except Tim and Tamie, Lewis and Tom.
  Lewis, Tom, Jesse and Mike graduated from Roy. ^{P. 120}
Ernie Jr., Edna and Tamie graduated from Lewistown. We have lived in our present place for 27 years.
  The Harrells had 10 children: Lewis, Tom, Jesse, Mike, Ernie Jr., Edna, Tamie, Patsy, Dan and Tim. Dan died while they were still living in Roy. Tom and his family live in Boise, Idaho where he is in the retail grocery business. Jesse and family are living in Idaho, near Kimberly and he works in a beet factory. He is a retired Navy man. Mike and his family live in Jackson, Wyo. where he is employed as an estate manager and caretaker. Patsy married Wayne Heppner and they live at Colstrip with their family. Lewis and his family live at Mobridge. The rest of the family is scattered far and wide.

  Anton Heil was born in the village of Cjezd in Czechoslovakia. His father was a tailor by trade and he also had a farm of about ten acres. His mother's name was Anna Moravek. He attended grade school and when he was thirteen years old he worked on a farm for $15.00 a year. He learned his trade of blacksmith in two and a half years. Then he worked for six months at Blatna, (Blatna was formerly the town of Zlatna; when the gold ran out they changed the name to Blatna, which means mud.)
  In 1907 he decided to come to the United States. Most of his family stayed in the old country. He arrived in New York on the first of May, on the Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grose. He had $20 when he arrived, but in three days found employment in a blacksmith shop where he worked ten hours a day, six days a week for $49 a week. The work was hard, but everyone seemed to be happy and satisfied. He changed jobs several times but stayed in New York City for four years.
  In 1911 he decided to come to Montana. He got a job on a ranch for $40.00 a month and board. In the fall of 1911 he filed on a homestead, built a cabin and stayed there during the winter with two friends. In the spring he got a job in the New Year Mine as a blacksmith. He felt that this was the best job he had ever had. The wages were $4 a day. The mine shut down in about five months and everyone was laid off. He went back to the homestead.
  In this area of Roy (Coal Hill) there were about seventy-five Czec homesteaders; some of these people were family units, but most were single men and a few women.
  Anton married Mary Kasela in 1917. She came to Montana in 1915 with her parents and three sisters. She worked in Lewistown for two years. Anton and Mary lived on the farm and raised a family of three sons and two daughters. The two eldest children, Miro and Molly, were born in Roy; the other three, Ann, George and Eugene were all born in Lewistown. They lived through the 1930's and the depression on the homestead.
  All of the children attended Coal Hill school. Miro graduated from the 8th grade there. The rest all attended high school in Roy and graduated from there.
  The Heil's would stock up on food, in the fall; enough to last the whole winter. A whole large bag of coffee would be ordered, which they ground with a small coffee grinder.
  Mail was picked up and delivered by whomever happened to be passing and going into Roy. Horses and wagons were their means of transportation until 1925 when they got their first car, a Model T.
  Miro made his first trip to Lewistown and attended the fair when he was about six. This was also the first time he ever tasted soda pop; it was a wonder!
  Miro remembers seeing his first airplane when he was about four years old. He heard a noise and saw what at first he thought was a bird. Only it landed and some men got out and came to ask directions to Roy!
  In 1925 all the neighbors got together and built the Bohemian Hall. It is still being used for community gatherings.
  In 1958, Anton and Mary moved to Lewistown and retired. Their oldest son, Miro, and his family took over the ranch. Molly, their oldest daughter, married Norman Haas and in 1945 died of childbirth complications.
  George became a teacher. He married Shirley Lewis in 1958. They raised five children: Brian, David, Julie, Christine and Jenny. George taught in Roy in the mid sixties, then at Red Lodge for a couple of years and then went to Philipsburg where he has since taught.
  He and his family spend their summers in Roy on their place, formerly Dan Moltzau's, west of Roy.
  Ann married Clark Carter and lives in Lewistown. Gene lives at Moore with his family and manages the Moore Cenex.
  At Easter time in 1982 Mary and Anton celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. In July of that year, Anton passed away and is buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mary now lives alone in their house in Lewistown. ^{P. 121}

  Miro Heil and Betty Hatfield, of Ohio, were married July 12, 1958. Betty's roommate while she was in the service was a cousin of Miro's, who introduced them.
  The couple have three sons; left to right in the photo: William Scott "Bill" born August 1965; Edward Monroe, born August of 1961 and Stanley Anton born in March of 1963.
  Miro and Betty have retired from the ranch near Coal Hill and now live in the Fergus area. Ed and Stanley both reside in the Salt Lake area of Utah and Bill lives in Fargo, North Dakota.

  Anton Hosna was born 17 March 1893 in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States at the age of 14 years. He came to Montana and homesteaded in Section 12 and 13 of the above description. After he made proof on the homestead he began working for the Great Northern Railway in 1920 and continued to be employed by them until 1957 when he retired and moved to Lewistown. Hosna was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles for 42 years and belonged to the Western Bohemian Fraternal Association.
  Mr. Hosna died at the St. Josephs Hospital 8 February 1966 at the age of 72 years. He was survived by the family of his brother Joseph of Illinois and was preceded in death by his two brothers, Charles and Joseph.
  Charles Hosna homesteaded in Sec. 14, T. 19N, R. 23E., near his brother, Anton.
  He was brought to the hospital in Lewistown, suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever and Anton died 9 October 1915, after one week of illness. Charles Hosna are buried in the Lewistown Cemetery.

  Joe Kalina came to Roy on April 1, 1914 from Lonsdale, Minnesota. He came out west to look for work. His father had sold the grain elevator that Joe was running for him in Lonsdale and as there were two younger brothers at home on the farm, Joe knew that he could not stay on the home farm, and he didn't have any money to buy one of his own.
  When he arrived in Lewistown he decided to come to Roy and visit Joe Swoboda. Swoboda was from the same locale in Minnesota that Joe was. Swoboda talked Joe into taking up a homestead. Young Joe bought a relinquishment from Swoboda on 160 acres of desert claim. He figured it was a cheap way to get 160 acres.
  Plenty of rain in 1915 made a bumper crop so Joe went back to Minnesota and on November 15, 1915 he and Emma Cervenka were married. He did as many a homesteader did; once they filed on a homestead they went back home to get their sweethearts and brought ^{P. 122} them out to a 12 x 14 homestead shack. Emma's mother couldn't see her daughter living in such a shack, so she gave them $1000 to build a house. In the fall of 1916 they built a 24 x 28 two story house, with the help of homestead friends. One was a carpenter and the other one a mason, who did the plastering of the rooms.
  Thus began many tough years with dry summers and hard winters during which they made a farm out of prairie and sagebrush. Dick Kalina paid tribute to his early pioneer parents when he said that "all of the sons and daughters of homesteaders owe a very great deal to their parents for making a country and home out of the sagebrush. Our mothers worked right along with our fathers. The women gathered a lot of sagebrush, milked cows, shocked grain and even worked in the field with horses."
  Three sons were born to the Kalina's. Richard was born on August 26, 1918 at the homestead. Mrs. Frank Pospisil, as midwife, helped bring him into the world. Milton was born on December 1, 1922 in Minnesota and Donald was born February 4, 1925 in Lewistown.
  Joe Kalina played for many school dances and parties during the early years. He'd tie his three-row, button accordion on the back of his saddlehorse and would go to play for dances at the Bear Creek and Swoboda School houses; at the Bohemian Hall and in many homes. There wasn't room for square dances, so they'd waltz, two-step and polka. Many a young couple danced to his music. One time while playing for a dance at the Stoddard Ranch he played a solo dance for Andrew Fergus.
  From 1922 to 1926 Joe ran an Avery tractor on a threshing rig. Fourteen neighbors had gotten together, formed a company and bought the rig. Joe was one of the first committee men on the first Farm Administration. He helped set up the AAA Farm Program and with the sign up in 1933 and was community committee man from 1933 until 1948 when his son, Dick, was elected to that position for the next 27 years. Joe also ran a grain elevator in Roy during the winter of 1933-34.
  Joe mapped and measured many fields. From 1938 and on, when the government paid for the building of stockwater darns, Joe staked and measured for many of them. In 1949 Joe taught veteran's in the farm school at Roy for two years. In 1951 he and Emma moved to Lewistown, when their son's, Dick and Don, took over the ranch, and he worked classifying land for the county. When he retired from this he got an old well drilling rig and drilled many wells for people in the area. He had a high success rate with his talent. When he reached the age of 80 he had to quit, due to arthritis in his knees.
  Emma passed away in 1972 at the age of 78. The last five years of Joe's life was spent living with his son, Dick, and Dick's wife, Virginia, on the home place. Joe passed away in 1979 at the age of 87. Both are buried in Calvary Cemetery in Lewistown.

  Dick spent his entire life on the home ranch until his retirement in February of 1980 when he and Virginia moved into Roy. Dick and Virginia Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin, were married on June 3, 1946.
  Dick followed in his father's musical footsteps, as did all 3 boys, and for many years he played drums at a dance, somewhere, every Saturday night. He still does when the occasion arises.
  Virginia was a talented piano player and for years they, along with Sonny and Norms Weingardt, were known as the popular dance band, "The Stardusters".
  Dick started in 1941 with the Zahns, Harvey Fogle and Chet Larson when they played for monthly dances at the Bohemian Hall. They played good music everyone enjoyed; on violin, horn, trumpet, banjo, ^{P. 123} guitar and drums. Dick and his brother, Don, leased the home ranch for several years, until Don got his own place. Dick then bought the ranch in 1960.
  Virginia passed away in April of 1980.
  Dick has remodeled the old Stendal house, which they bought in Roy, and has made it into an attractive modern home. He leads an active life, doing ranch work where needed, trucks, does dirt moving work and helps wherever else he is needed.

  Dorothy Elnore Fogle, daughter of Harvey E. and Myrtle L. Fogle, and Milton Wilford Kalina, son of Joseph W. and Catherine C. (Emma) Kalina, were united in marriage on October 2, 1943 in the chapel on the Coast Artillery Base, Fort Crockett, Galveston, Texas.
  Milton received his discharge one week after the couple were married. They returned to Roy for one week before settling in Great Falls. They lived with Dorothy's aunt, Helen and George Martin. Milton was employed at the Anaconda Smelter in Great Falls.
  The purchase of the Leo Krahulik farm, seven miles east of Roy, brought the couple back in March of 1944. The farm was 480 acres and had a three room house. The kitchen lighting was powered by two six volt batteries and there were two orange crate cupboards. They had a borrowed milk cow and thirty chickens. Their first crop was wheat and rye, farmed with a 10-20 International tractor, a Sanders plow, a combine, and a home-made drill.
  Their son, Larry Dale, was born on August 27, 1946 in Lewistown. Shortly thereafter, Dorothy got a gas powered washing machine, purchased at an auction sale for $35.
  In 1948, a 32 volt light plant was installed and the Kalinas built their first chicken house.
  Colene Kay, their daughter, was born October 12, 1950 in Lewistown. That same year they built onto the house and dug the well in the basement.
  Electricity was brought to the farm in 1951. By 1953, Milton and Dorothy were milking nine cows and selling cream. The year of 1954 was the beginning of the egg business which grew to three thousand laying hens by the late 1970's.
  Additional farm ground was rented from Cabelka in 1956 and the lease was retained throughout the couple's farming career.
  The introduction to sheep was quite by accident. In the fall of 1960, when Swend Holland was transporting sheep by truck, one jumped over the side and escaped. After considerable chasing, somewhere in a cloud of dust, Milton finally caught the sheep. The next spring 25 ewes were purchased from Bill Stockton of Grass Range. The band of sheep increased to an eventual 90 head.
  The winter of 1960 did not seem as cold as past winters to the family because it was their first winter with indoor plumbing. The modernization continued with the installation of the telephone in 1962. Prior to 1961 a self installed, battery operated telephone connected the Kalina with Maruskas and Martinecs. Two longs and a short would get an answer at the Kalina house.
  The highway to Grass Range was under construction in 1961 and 1962. The construction company headquarters was in the Kalina yard and the gravel pit was in the field next to the house so it was an unusually busy time. The highway right-of-way reduced the Kalina farm to 451 acres.
  Jess Bilgrien rented the land on the corner for the first gas station in 1961.
  Larry graduated from Northern Montana College in Havre in 1968 and married Susan J. Roth of Bridger in November 1970.
  The Roy High School reunion in 1970 recognized the Kalina family as the only entire family to have graduated from Roy High School at that time. ^{P. 124}
  Milton and Dorothy moved to Lewistown in 1974. They gave away the chickens and rented the farm land to Artie Niemi. Milton went to work for United States Gypsum at Heath as a mechanic and later changed to Bourke Implement where he worked for 8 1/2 years. Dorothy is a sales clerk at Anthony's in Lewistown.
  The family gathered at Nodaway, Iowa for the wedding of Colene to Garry Roberts in 1979.
  Milton retired in 1985 and stays busy helping area farmers, when needed.
  Grandchildren include the daughters of Larry and Susan; Kathy born July 1, 1976 and Heidi born September 30, 1980; and the daughters of Garry and Colene, Stacey born May 11, 1982 and Erin born September 27, 1983.
  Dorothy was active in the Presbyterian Church and United Presbyterian Women, a member of the Valley View Home Demonstration Club, American Legion Auxiliary and was a leader of the Silver Sage 4-H Club. She also decorated cakes for all occasions and did extensive sewing.
  Milton was on the School Board for 21 consecutive years, an elder of the church, member of the Farmer's Union and the American Legion Post #96. He likes to hunt, fish, and play musical instruments.

  Don and Charlotte Anderson were married on February 14, 1953 in GlenEllyn, Illinois. They lived and ranched on the home ranch with his brother Dick until 1956 when they moved to the Bill Harvey ranch (the old Jennings place). In 1980 they sold this ranch and purchased the home place from Dick when he retired.
  The couple has one son, David, who was born on August 16, 1954. David married Marilyn Fowler on June 21, 1982. They lived at Brooks on her place until 1983 when they moved back to the home place and leased the Miro Heil ranch. They have two daughters, Christine born November 7, 1984 and Tracy, born November 19, 1986.
  Don enjoys music, as his brothers do, and is an excellent carpenter. He remodeled the houses on both the Harvey and home places and fixed them into attractive modern homes as well as restored other buildings on the places.
  Their son, David, is an excellent taxidermist.
  Charlotte is a charter member of and was the Valley View Extension Homemakers first secretary-treasure.

  John and Rose Kasala came to the United States from Czechoslovakia. They came with all of their family in 1915, except for their son, Joe, who had immigrated to the U.S. earlier, and their youngest son, Ben, who stayed behind to serve in the Czechoslovakian army. During World War I, Ben and his brother Joe fought on opposing sides. Ben finally came to the United States after the war and settled in Ohio.
  The other Kasala children were: Frances who married Leodegar Skalka; Anna who married Joe Kviz and then after his death was married to Jake Bedlan; Rose who married Emil Sirucek and Mary who married Anton Heil.
  The Kasala homestead was north of Coal Hill near the Rocky Point trail.
  John passed away in 1929. Rose passed away in 1947. Both are buried in Roy.
  Joe Kasala proved up on the homestead and he, his wife Katherine, and family lived there until 1936 when they moved to Moore. Joe passed away in 1965.^{P. 125}

  James J. Kellner was born in Lipkov, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States in 1907. He lived in Iowa for a few years, then moved on to North Dakota. There he married Barbara Marek on August 15, 1914 in Lisbon, ND. The couple had known each other in the old country. That same year they moved to Montana and homesteaded northeast of Roy.
  When the Kellners left North Dakota, for Montana, a friend gave Jim an Egyptian 43 long rifle, which had been used in the Boer War. He wrapped it in newspaper, and all the way to Montana, he protected that gun like a baby. His wife was very mad because it wasn't pots and pans he was guarding with such tender care. She never let him forget it, as long as he lived. The Kellners were mainly grain farmers.
  Their only child, a son, Jim Jr., was born in Montana. In his youth there was a herd law in effect and the Kellners like most everyone else had a few head of cattle. Youngsters were delegated to watch and herd the cattle to keep them out of neighbors' grain fields and property. Jim was one of these youngsters who had that job. While still very young, he remembered spending many a day out on the prairie in scorching heat, dust, amidst a few fierce storms, battling grasshoppers, fearing rattlesnakes, being hungry, and just plain lonesome. Sometimes it would be a day or two before some of these kids got home again. It was no fun!
  Kellner Sr. was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge. He passed away at home on a stormy day, April 9, 1958. Because the weather conditions were so bad it was a couple of days before the undertaker was able to come and get him.
  Mrs. Kellner and her son continued ranching.
   During her last years she was bedridden. Her son nursed her during this difficult time. He refused to put her in a nursing home, mainly because she had never learned to speak English and would not have been able to communicate her needs. She passed away in 1964.
  Jim married Mary Jane Tabor on November 14, 1972. He had spent his entire life on the ranch, except for a year spent in the CCC camp in Idaho, where he  suffered acute homesickness. His only other adventure, was a trip, he took with his wife, to Michigan. He passed away in 1984 after a lengthy bout with cancer.

  Einar Kennedy homesteaded in the area just north of Coal Hill. In 1928 Anton Heil bought his place, also the machinery. Kennedy was gone most of the time, he only stayed on his place once in awhile.
  Miro Heil remembers him as being an inventor and a fellow that could make do with what he had.
  A memorable invention was a shaver that somewhat resembled and worked on the principal of a lawn mower. Rigged up with strings he could pull it up and down his face. He claimed he had $700 invested in this particular invention.
  One time Miro's father, Anton, was going over to Kennedys place, and in coming over the hill, all he saw was a strange tri-pod standing out on the prairie. All of a sudden a carrier of sorts come up out of the ground, full of dirt, and tipped over dumping the contents off to the side; then back into the ground it went. Einar had built the strange looking mechanism to bring dirt up out of a well he was digging.
  On another occasion, Kennedy's tractor could be heard running. Heil assumed Kennedy was working in his field, part of which was in sight of Heils. But after a considerable length of time, Heil decided to go see if he needed help, as he never showed up making a round in the field. Kennedy was using the tractor for other purposes. He had rigged up a cooker using the tractor manifold for heat and was cooking beans.
  This tractor needed to be cranked by hand to start it. On cold days, that was a chore indeed. Kennedy solved the problem by starting his Model T and jacking it up, he rigged a chain from the rear tire to the crank of the tractor. He would put the car in gear and let it do the cranking! On cold days, after using this method to start the tractor, he would then use the hot water out of the tractor radiator to wash his clothes!

  Charles (Charley) and Mary Kolar came to Montana from Milligan, Nebraska in 1911 with their small son, James. They leased a ranch south of Moore. In July of 1911 Dad shipped 4 horses, 1 milk cow, plow, household goods and furniture to Moore on the immigration car from Nebraska and it arrived just in time for him to work the land and seed the winter wheat that fall. He read about the new land at Roy, Montana available by filing for a homestead of 160 acres, about 15 miles east of Roy. Wanting to own his own land he filed the application for the homestead.
  On February of 1912 a son, Adolf, was born. They harvested the 1912 crop at Moore. His application for the homestead was accepted, so Dad with his brother-in-laws, Frank, Louis, Emil and Bill Sirucek, went to Roy and put up the house. They moved to the homestead. ^{P. 126}
  Dad decided to build a hardware store in Roy. He built a two story structure, using the upper floor for part time living quarters during the week days, operating the hardware, as it was too far to go back and forth from the homestead. They named the store, CHARLEY KOLAR'S HARDWARE. With the homesteaders and people moving to the Roy area the hardware was a great asset to the community.
  Dad did a lot of freighting between Hilger and Roy and into Lewistown with his lumber wagon and horses for supplies before the railroad came to Roy. The trips to Hilger took 2 or 3 days. On his way back he stopped at the Bert Sargent ranch on the outskirts of Roy where they fed and bedded the horses down for the night. The Sargents converted a chicken house into sleeping quarters, with meals, for people who spent the night there. They were very kind hearted people, everybody appreciated their hospitality.
  Mother (Mary) would tend the store with her two sons while Dad was either working on the homestead or freighting. During the summer months, on sunny days, Dad would ride his bicycle to Roy from the homestead on Mondays and then return at the end of the week, so Mother would be alone out on the homestead with the boys.
  Dad always put in a supply of wood for the year, so he'd go to the Missouri breaks with the team. One morning a heavy, dense fog moved in as he was on his way, early in the morning. He kept on going, thinking it would break but finally he decided to turn back and about that time he lost his sense of direction, as there were no roads or trails to follow. He decided that if he let the team go they would come out somewhere. Sure enough they stopped at the gate back home.
  As time went on they cleared the land, put up some more buildings, but no water was available. They hauled water for the house use and the livestock, part of the time.
  October 4, 1914 another son, Ed, was born on the homestead with Grandmother (Katrina Sirucek) and her neighbor lady, Mrs. Zaruba, as midwives. There were no doctors available from Lewistown so the neighbors had to help each other during sickness. Mother and Mrs. Zaruba saved a little boys life by making him drink whiskey while they sucked the poison from a rattlesnake bite. They made an incision where the snake had bit the boy in the leg, using the whiskey as an anesthetic.
  They had the homestead all proved up now. The hardware business was good but the homesteaders bought merchandise on credit and then there wasn't enough money to pay their bills so Dad was forced to sell the hardware, moving back to Moore. The buildings were sold off. The house was moved to Anton Koliha's farm and is still standing there. The folks bought a farm, 5 miles east of Moore.
  Six more children were born at Moore: Karel Kolar, Leona Kolar Thielmann, Viktor Kolar, Judith Kolar Berg, Willie Kolar and Louis Kolar.
  In 1945 the folks bought a farm west of Lewistown. Their son, Adolf, took over the farm at Moore and they moved to the Lewistown farm.
  During the 1950's Dad received a check from one of his customers that owed him, from the hardware days in Roy. We are sorry we didn't write down the parties name who paid up his bill. There are still many outstanding bills that were never paid.
  Dad passed away July of 1960 and Mother continued to live on the farm with her son, Ed. Then Ed built a new house, when he got married, on the same place. Later she sold the farm to Ed. In 1984 Mother was admitted to the Valle Vista Manor Nursing Home where she still lives. She is at the age of 96.
  In 1986, the Kalina men were helping with an auction sale, east of Roy, and they found a calendar that Dad gave out during his days in the Hardware in 1914. The Calendar was printed with CHARLEY KOLAR'S HARDWARE name; in fair condition yet. Thanks to the Kalina men for giving it to our family. Viktor Kolar now farms the homestead and we hope to keep it in the family. We still drive out to see the acreage, thinking of the work, hardship and pleasure they had during that time.

  Anton Koliha was born January 14, 1885 in Czechoslovakia. Emma Kosmata was born February 2, 1892 in Omaha, Nebraska. The couple was married January 19, 1910.
  They had five children. Emil and Evelyn were both born in St. Paul, Nebraska. Delphia "Duffy" was born in Lewistown and Milfred and Charles are both listed as being born in Roy.
  Emil married Marie Walters, the daughter of Joe Walters who homesteaded in the Fergus area. He lives in Billings and was a self employed car mechanic, working mostly on foreign cars. He is now retired. Emil ^{P. 127} and Marie had two children, Emil Jr. and Carley.
  Evelyn (Lohse) passed away in February of 1969 and is buried in Kalispell.
  Delphia attended Eastern Montana College and became a teacher. The first school she taught after graduation was the Black Butte school. She married James Naylor and they lived at Danvers for many years before retiring and moving to Lewistown.
  Charles lives in Stockton, California where he and his wife, Jean Stiff (of Belgrade) both teach school as do their two sons, David and Bruce.
  Milfred "Mel" became an air traffic controller. he and his wife, Nola, live in Yakima, Washington and they had one son, Ronald. Milfred is a gifted poet.
  Anton passed away February 11, 1962 and is buried in Lewistown.
  The Koliha place is now a part of the John Maruska ranch.

  My father, Anton Koliha, first came to Roy from St. Paul, Nebraska in 1915. My uncle, Joe, had come earlier and encouraged Dad to come to this new land as many people were coming and filing on homesteads. The country was being settled fast. Since most of the land was already taken up, Dad bought out a relinquishment of 160 acres from a bachelor, named Adolph Pospisil, 8 1/2 miles from Roy, on Box Elder Creek.
  My oldest brother and sister were born in Nebraska so Mother couldn't come until Dad had a place for them to live. There was only a tar paper shack with no roof on it when Dad came. With Uncle Joe's help he put a roof on and built a barn for the livestock, though it was difficult because it rained for two weeks steady.
  Like all of the homesteaders they moved by immigrant car as far as Roy and brought only the necessary things. Mother wasn't very impressed with the tar paper shack and many times wished she could return to Nebraska, but it took all the money they had to buy the land. With courage and determination they stuck it out. It must have been very lonesome for Mother not to be able to see her family and friends.
  Land was covered with sagebrush so had to be cleared before any crops could be planted. Rains came and crops were good until the terrible drought of 1919. The crop failure was a disaster. Many of the early homesteaders left then. Mother went over the grain field picking the little heads of grain for the chickens. That winter was a cold hard one. The hay they bought was shipped in and was very expensive and the animals wouldn't eat it because it was slough grass.
  Mother worked right along with Dad gathering sagebrush, milking cows, shocking grain and working with the horses. While they were out binding and shocking grain on a hot summer day, my sister, younger brother and I were playing in front of the house. I was lying on my stomach on a bench along side the house and right next to it I saw a huge rattlesnake. Luckily my father just happened to come home from the field and killed it.
  We attended the Coal Hill school our first eight grades. We walked across fields and I remember how heavy our feet would get, loaded with sticky gumbo in the spring of the year.
  I liked all my teachers--one of my favorite was Lucille Turnbull. She is still living in Sumner, Washington.
  All the teachers boarded with Frank Vodicka. My 2nd grade teacher was a man named Lou Gerig. He was very strict and I was so scared of him because he did whip some of the boys. In later years I was grateful to him for having taught me phonics.
  The drought and depression years were especially hard in the 30's. Little cash was realized from meager crops raised. We grew a garden without irrigation, milked cows, raised chickens, raised hogs for meat and helped Mother with the canning of it. We also raised geese for meat and we stripped feathers and Mother made pillows and feather comforters. She baked all our bread; mostly whole wheat. White boughten bread was like angel food cake. She made all our dresses. Father repaired our shoes.
  It was hard and I am glad we don't have to live like that today. Mother at age 96 is still living in her own home in Lewistown and enjoying pretty good health. [Note: Emma died in the Central Montana Hospital in Lewistown on October 15, 1988 following a short illness.]

  I will always have many fond memories of the Roy country. That is where I had my beginning and I enjoy going back to visit old friends and see the homestead of my parents.
  When I reminisce about the old homestead and the early days of our lives there is much that could be written. There were many happy moments and simple pleasures. During the dry depression years it seems everyone had a hard time, a few moved away, but the majority stuck it out and never lost hope that better times were ahead. I often marveled at their fortitude and self-reliance. Adversity only slowed them down a little.
  Although we had to work hard and didn't have the ^{P. 128} many material luxuries we enjoy today, the homestead was a wonderful place to grow up and commune with nature. There were no TV's, but a simple battery powered radio which brought us the news and of course the famous Amos & Andy show.
  Each of us had daily chores to perform, such as chop wood, feed the livestock, and carry water into the house for our daily use. We also had our cats and dogs. My most important pet was our pony; so very useful. It seems that all the youngsters in the area grew up on a horse. We spent many hours riding and herding cattle.
  It was about 1 1/2 miles to the Coal Hill School. We walked in every type of weather; rain, snow, blizzards, dust storms and sunny weather. It was a one room with dedicated teachers, who had all eight grades and who gave us the greatest gift of all, that of wanting to learn and better ourselves; to be good citizens and to appreciate this great land called America. The eight grades in one room actually turned out quite well as the younger grades would hear the information being given by the older kids and we learned beyond our grade structure, making it easy later on.
  The above conditions described may sound harsh, but everyone seemed happy. One big disadvantage was the availability of medical care. The nearest doctor was in Lewistown, about 50 miles away on dirt roads. People were generally very ill before the trip was made for medical care. I know we kids were brought into this world by a mid-wife and never saw a doctor for many years. Outside of the normal childhood diseases most of the children were healthy. I had the misfortune of contracting polio in my second year of high school in Roy so I fought a long battle to regain the use of my limbs, especially when so little was known of the problem. If it wasn't for that fact, I might have remained on the ranch.
  Neighbors were always willing to help each other and I remember going with Dad to the different neighbors and it was impossible to leave without enjoying the goodies that were offered. The hand of fellowship was always offered to all who happened to pass their way.
  There is much that can be said for the simple carefree atmosphere that prevailed. We received the basic values and appreciation of life. Our parents sacrifices and courage to survive in very harsh winters and years of drought without benefits of furnaces, insulation, water or bathroom facilities in the house, are a memorial to these sturdy pioneers who blazed a path for us to follow. We can certainly be proud of our parents for their love and solid values they instilled in us. 

  Joe Koliha homesteaded northwest of his brother Anton's place. Joe's wife's name was Emma too. She was Emma McCarty, a sister to Mrs. Gradle. Joe met her when he was working for the Hruska family near Lewistown.
  Joe did not stay in the Roy area very long. They moved to Great Falls and he worked in the smelter in the Wire Mill. Joe is now deceased; Emma still lives in Great Falls.

  Tony and Matilda (Tillie) Kozeluh homesteaded in Roy in 1913. They farmed 8 miles east of Roy. Tillie's parents, Frank and Anna Halla lived close to them. Other families who lived near were the Swobodas and the Lambert Benishs. The Benish name was later changed to Benes.

• Coal Hill School 1924 Back row: Jim Kellner, Steve Martenic, Sylvia Martenic, Evelyn Koliha, the teacher, Lucille Turnbull, Margaret Stiendorft and Emil Koliha. Front row: Ernest Maruska, Adelphia "Duffy" Koliha, Marie Vlasta Maruska, Henry Martenic, Miro Heil and Louise Martenic. 
• Coal Hill School 1926 Back Row: Sylvia Martinec, Evelyn Koliha, Delphia Koliha, Vlasta Maruska. Front Row; Molly Heil, Millie Martinec, Vlasta Martinec, Evelyn Rellick. 
• Bear Creek School Roy in front: Emery Kennett. Next row: Hazel and Opal Kennett, Claire Warner. Third row: Clyde Warner, Francis Bobmier, Lavern Olson, Calvin Olson, Grace Olson. Fourth row: Micky Bobmier, Lillian Olson and two girls that were grandchildren of the teacher, B. W Pierce. 
• Students pictured are from L. to R. back row: Annie Horyna, Fred Fadrhonc, Ray Horyna, Dick Kalina. Second row: Mary Fadrhonc, Peggy Siroky, Jerry Siroky, George Fadrhonc. Third row: Josephine Siroky, Annie Siroky, Milton Kalina. Front row: Joe Souchek, Alice Fadrhonc and Donald Kalina. 
• Central School in 1962  L. to R. back row: Colene Kalina, Monica Peters, Gene Horyna, Mable Woodcock, teacher. Front row: Diane Peters, Bonnie Zahn, Rosemary Pospisil, Roger Siroky. 
• Ernest, Butch and Jake Harrell. 
• Haying on the Horse Ranch in the early 1920'8. Circa.
• Anton Heil and Mary Kasala, in their 'courting days':
• A good crop about 1938. Miro Heil in the background when he was about 20 years old. In the foreground, George, Gene and Anton.
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• The Joe Kalina family in 1939. Standing are Dick, Emma and Joe. In front are Don and Milton.
• Dick and Virginia [Kalina]
• The drilling rig that Joe Kalina used to drill water wells for many a Roy farmer. This one he is drilling for Jess Bilgrien in 1962.
• Moving the Kalina house from the homestead to it's present location on the home place. The moving of a building from one place to another, in such a manner, was a common occurrence in the homestead days.
• Don and Charlotte on their wedding day, February 14, 1953.
• Mary (Heil) and Rose (Sirucek) Kasala
• Charles and 1Mary Kolar are standing by the accordion player with their two sons, James and Adolf. They were celebrating the claim of their homestead. 1914.
• The Anton Koliha family in 1939. From left to right: Duffy, Charles, Emma, Anton, Evelyn, Milfred, Marie, (Emil's wife) and Emil.
• The Koliha homestead shack along Box Elder Creek in 1915. Notice the water in the creek--but also notice there were NO trees along the creek, back then!