'Part of our heritage': Decades later, school bell returns
‘Part of our heritage’: Decades later, school bell returns By LIZ WEBERApril 24, 2021 GMT BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — In the 1970s, word spread through Gallatin Gateway that the bell in the 1914 schoolhouse needed to be removed over concerns the old bell tower could no longer hold it. Whoever managed to remove the bell could keep it, the district said. Ed ter Telgte, a rancher who attended the school as a child, took up the challenge. After he removed the bell, it stayed with him and his family, including on their move to Columbus, Montana. Decades later, the bell was returned to Gallatin Gat...
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