[3][4] On May 5, 1899, Theodore Brandley and the first band of Latter Day Saint (LDS) settlers arrived at the Stirling railway siding (formerly known as 18 Mile Lake), southeast of present-day Maybutt.

[5][6] Theodore Brandley with the help of Charles Ora Card established the community of Stirling 1 km south of Maybutt.

Mr. Fisher had elaborate plans for the new community, one of which was to construct a large hotel, suitably named, the Prairie Queen.

[8] It was a beautiful three story brick veneered hotel with all the modern conveniences of the time, such as steam heat, electric lights, and even a bar room that was never used as such.

[9] It hosted many of the amenities of a larger community centre, including its very own local newspaper, (The New Stirling Star),[10] As well, in no particular order, other businesses included; livery stables, a Union Bank of Canada branch, a two-storey boarding house, two general stores, a dry business, lumber yards, three grain elevators and flour mill, Presbyterian and late United Church, C.P.R.

section homes for railway maintenance, an Apiary and Superior Honey Factory, warehouse, Chinese laundry and restaurant, a resident North-West Mounted Police, an International Harvest Machine Company, and the elegant 50-room Prairie Queen Hotel.

The "Decline"; starting with poor crop yields, droughts, and falling grain prices in the mid 1920s through the 1930s, the Dust Bowl era hit Maybutt very hard.

In 1932 the hotel was bought one last time and dismantled and the materials were used to build a grocery store and pool hall in Magrath.

Classes were originally held at the Presbyterian Church, a Chinese restaurant and later the Prairie Queen Hotel at the corner of First Avenue and Front Street, Maybutt.

Maybutt is served by a number of regional newspapers including the Westwind Weekly, Lethbridge Herald, and Prairie Post.

In the beginnings, with the arrival of a pioneering optimism, the settlement of New Stirling needed a way to communicate its successes to local residents.