Friday, February 4, 1921

Phone Line Opened Broadus to Miles

With the installation of a telephone instrument in the Reliable Drug store late yesterday afternoon, Broadus became connected directly with Miles City. This marks the completion of the 87-mile toll line south from Miles City, with a branch line to Stacey, 16 miles in length.

The instrument was installed here by L.P. Teague, manager of the Eastern Montana Telephone company, assisted by Jack Burke, lineman. Phones have been placed at Beebe, Volborg, Coalwood, Stacey, and the Y T Ranch. From the latter place yesterday afternoon, Mr. Teague talked over this two-wire metallic circuit to Miles City and says the equipment proved successful in all particulars.

Mr. Teague anticipated no difficulty in talking to Miles City from Broadus and had no hesitancy in stating the line would be ready for commercial business by the time the Examiner reached its subscribers. The toll charges from Broadus to Miles City for a three-minute conversation will be $1.30, based on a rate of 1 ½ cents a mile.

“The installation of this one instrument in Broadus,” said Mr. Teague “is only a temporary arrangement, and we intend to carry out our original plans as soon as possible for a switchboard and exchange here.”

Thursday, February 4, 1971

School expansion viewed on tour

Last week Marshall Sullivan, who teaches in the Broadus school system, conducted a small group of high school students and the Examiner editor on a tour of the new additions to the Broadus High School. The group wandered through a maze of rafters, studdings, pipes, conduits, etc., and around stacks of supplies and equipment while Mr. Sullivan attempted to clarify where and what the various sections included.

The tour started in what will be the main entrance to the building after completion. Areas accessible from the main entrance are the new auditorium, gymnasium (which has had a good sized storage room built on the east end), rest room area, superintendent’s office and a new classroom area.

The auditorium has a sloping floor which will have a seating capacity of about 200 in fixed seating. Room for extra chairs to be added will bring the seating capacity to approximately 450. Wrestling is planned to be held on the stage in the auditorium when the new building is put into use. A music room and a storage room are located just off the stage.

Separating the auditorium section from the academic section are two counseling offices. An outside entrance is also included here for students wishing to go to the business section, science section or the library, research and study area.

The business section includes classroom and study area for bookkeeping, typing, shorthand and business machines. Folding partitions adapt the section so that it can be used as one room for study, lectures etc. with adjoining smaller rooms for special study and project work.

The science section is also designed in this manner and is a four-in-one room area. This section houses the biology, science, chemistry and physics classrooms which can be opened up into one large area. Small work rooms are available to these classes where lab work may be prepared.

Between these areas is a large library, study and research center. Students in this portion of the building are near counseling offices where they can receive extra help and to exits leading to various sections of the building. This study and research area is also near the location of the seventh and eighth grade classrooms and the junior high students will have access to these facilities. Teacher work rooms are designed in each of these areas with the flexibility and adaptability, one teacher can supervise three classroom areas at once from a centrally located office.

The new locker rooms are now in use and the addition to the shop is closed in from the weather.

Teachers and students are looking forward to the completion of the building and expanded programs which will be possible with the additional space. “We have good students, a good building,” High School Principal, Charles Sager said; “Now all we need is a good educational program to put into the building.”