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We continue this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory with The Havre Promoter. Information for this column, the 10th in this series, is in the March 13, 1914 issue. Several interesting articles appeared on the front page, including a very lengthy column about the Havre High School basketball team going to the interscholastic tournament in Bozeman; the Havre All Stars bowling team defeated Great Falls bowling teams; 53 people who applied for...
We go back to Havre for the month of March. Information for this ninth installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the creation of Montana Territory comes from the March 7, 1914 issue of The Havre Plaindealer, exactly 100 years ago today. There was a lot of local news throughout the newspaper, including what was going on at both the City Council and County Commission meetings; Orpheum Theatre owner T. C. Penny purchased the Chinook theater; Hill County...
For the eighth installment celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory, we go back to Hingham. Information comes from the Feb. 27, 1914 issue of the Hingham Review. Hingham was looking at getting a post office. Here is the Review's take on the issue: How About The Post Office It is generally conceded that every one of the applicants for the position of postmaster at Hingham is well qualified and capable of performing the duties of that office. But, where is the...
We go back to Box Elder for the seventh installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory. The following entries come from the Feb. 20, 1914 issue. When we last read about Box Elder, they were preparing for a large gathering of the Box Elder Basin Development Association and the Farmer’s Institute. A lengthy article ran on the front page announcing “Combined Meeting Was Big Success.” Conservative estimates, according to the article, say between 300 and 400 people attended this meeting. Of cours...
For the sixth installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the creation of Montana Territory, news comes from the Feb. 13, 1914 issue of the Hingham Review. The front page contained several articles of local interest, including a big basketball game between the towns of Hingham and Joplin with Hingham easily winning the game with a score of 61-14; a monthly schools report and a column about state apportionment of funding for schools with Hill County's figure...
In continuing this series celebrating Montana Territory's 150th anniversary, we will go to Box Elder and Hingham during February. This is the fifth in the series, and comes from the Feb. 6, 1914 issue of The Box Elder Valley Press. Box Elder was getting ready for a big meeting: Three Session Are to Be Held The combined meeting of the Box Elder Basin Development Association and the Farmers' Institute which was to have been held on February 10 has been changed to February 16....
The Montana Historical Society has declared 2014 “The Year of the Woman” and for good reason. One hundred years ago, Montana joined a small handful of other states by giving women the right to vote in the state. Women’s suffrage wouldn’t go countrywide for another six years, with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. We’ve all read about the great — or not so great — accomplishments of men in Montana, those who came here with Lewis and Clark, the fur trappers, those seeking their fortunes in the gold fiel...
There was quite a bit of news this week in 1914. Information for this article, the fourth in this series, comes from The Havre Plaindealer's Jan. 31, 1914 issue, exactly 100 years ago today. County officers throughout the state were meeting in Lewistown, and there was a lengthy article about that event. Two more lengthy articles appeared, one pleading "More Support Needed For the Success of School Athletics," and the other was the proceedings at the latest City Council...
The courts in Hill County were busy this week in 1914. For this third installment celebrating that year, 50 years after the formation of Montana Territory, the information for this column comes from the Jan. 24, 1914 edition of The Hill County Democrat, exactly 100 years ago today. Cases covered on the first page include two against two different local banks. Security State Bank of Havre lost its case against plaintiffs Krites and Krites, two brothers from Gildford who were...
The Havre Promoter's Jan. 16, 1914, issue is where the following entries were found for this second installment of the series celebrating the year 1914. Among the stories in this issue were that "Gilhooly's Troubles Was a Good Show", the Jennie Russell Co. was coming for five nights at The Orpheum Theatre, a free band concert was going to be held at the McIntyre Opera House, two marriages and two deaths. Two criminal cases were also reported. A lengthy article regarding the...
This year celebrates many milestones in Montana: the 150th anniversary of the formation of Montana Territory, the 125th anniversary of statehood, and the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Montana. This series of articles for 2014 will showcase the progress of this area of Montana since Montana Territory was established. For January, Havre newspapers will be featured. In February, entries from the Box Elder and Hingham papers will be featured. We will go back to the Havr...
The newspapers for this week in both 1893 and 1898 were not available, and the best I could muster on microfilm was the Dec. 26, 1903, copy of the Havre Plaindealer for this time of the year. This 52nd installment completes the series celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation. There was an extremely lengthy article regarding the recent graduation of the Class of 1903 from eighth grade. Each graduate gave a presentation ranging from song to recitations. The graduating students were Vera E. Webber, Antoinette E. S...
The newspaper on microfilm for this week in 1893 is not available, so we will go back in time to 1898, when Havre had been incorporated for five years. Entries for this article, which is the 51st installment of this series celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, come from the Dec. 23, 1898 issue of The Milk River Eagle. Good news came to Havre with this announcement, complete with misspelling: Two Trains After Jan. 1st Beginning with the first of the year the...
There was a mix-up with last week's article. It should have run this week! So, here is the article that should have been in last week's paper, celebrating the 49th installment of this series honoring Havre's 120th anniversary. My apologies to those who keep track. The entries for this article come from the Dec. 7, 1893, issue of The Havre Advertiser. The most interesting comes from Fort Assinniboine, proving that not all in Havre was uncultured and unsophisticated. The...
For this 50th installment celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation we go back to 1893. There were a lot of little paragraphs of local happenings in the Dec. 14, 1893, issue of The Havre Advertiser. Among those entries were: We learn that work up on the artesian well, at the post, has been temporarily suspended. “The post” was Fort Assinniboine. Special attention is called to the advertisement of the Havre Fur company which appears in to-days issue. The ad stated “Attention Hunters and Trappers. Before Disposi...
The newspaper for this week in 1893 is again not on microfilm, so we return to 1898 when Havre had been incorporated for only five years. Dudley Axtell, editor and publisher of The Milk River Eagle, was clearly not happy regarding a recent visit from Jim Hill. Criticisms of Mr. Hill are not commonly found in local publications, and this one appeared on the front page of the December 2, 1898 issue, complete with misspelling: Jim Hill Jim Hill was in town. Hill is president of...
For this 46th installment celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, we turn to the Nov. 23, 1893 issue of The Havre Advertiser. As always, the best local news was found in the social pages: City And State "Rolling in the snow with Sarah" is the latest fad. I have no idea what this means. If you do, please let me know, and if it is clean, I'll pass it on to readers. The city fathers met in secret conclave last Saturday night. --- Just snow enough fell on Monday...
All kinds of national news peppered the front page of the Nov. 16, 1893 issue of The Havre Advertiser. However, there was this small article, tucked away in the middle: Montana Army Notes In his report for the year ending June 30, 1893, Brig. Gen. Merritt, of the department of Dakota, says there were in this department 2,338 soldiers, of which the various posts in Montana contained 1,646, divided as follows: Fort Assinniboine, 482; Keough 450; Custer 419; Missoula 195; Poplar...
For this, the 44th installment of this series celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, we go back to 1893. The newspapers from that year are not complete, so we will visit 1893 for a while, then switch to 1898 again, then back to 1893 and the final installment will be from 1903, as that week is missing from both 1893 and 1898. In the social column of the Havre Advertiser's Nov. 9, 1893 issue, we find: City And State Hot and cold baths at the Elite. --- Chas. E....
In continuing this series celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, we visit the year 1898. The Oct. 28 issue of The Milk River Eagle had mostly political articles on the front page. They had some great stories in the social pages. Town And Country A social hop will be given in the K. P. hall on the 3rd. It will be the greatest and the grandest ball of the year. --- Martin O'Neil, one of this city's heaviest real estate owners and a former prominent townsman,...
For the 42nd installment celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, we are still visiting the year 1898, as the microfilm for this week in the year 1893 is still missing and does not start again until Nov. 2. News was still interesting in 1898, when Havre had been incorporated for a mere five years. This information comes from The Milk River Eagle, Oct. 21, 1898 edition. Front page news still contained election coverage, but this week there are three noteworthy...
In this week's installment celebrating Havre's 120th anniversary of incorporation, there is a lot of news pertaining to elections. The Milk River Eagle's Oct. 14, 1898, issue carried several articles in favor of the candidates they preferred, and some other tidbits of information on the front page, including and complete with misspellings: The wax treaders festival at K. of P. hall Thursday night was a most gorgeous success. --- Recent developments have conclusively shown...
In continuing this series celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation, we find ourselves in this week 115 years ago, in 1898. For the 40th installment, the information comes from the Oct. 7, 1898, edition of The Milk River Eagle. In 1898, we were embroiled in the Spanish-American War, and many troops from Fort Assinniboine were sent to fight the Spanish in places such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. While the war lasted only 10 weeks, it certainly p...
Emily Mayer All of the October 1893 issues of The Havre Advertiser are missing on microfilm and do not resume until Nov. 2. So, for October, we will visit what was happening in Havre in 1898, when it was only incorporated for five years. The following information comes from the Sept. 30, 1898, issue of The Milk River Eagle for this, the 39th installment of this series celebrating Havre’s 120th anniversary of incorporation. Elections were going on this week in 1898, so there w...
In this week’s The Havre Advertiser, dated Sept. 28, 1893, there was a lot of news in the “City and State” social pages, as well as a weather report written by C. W. Ling, Havre’s long-time weatherman. For the upcoming month of October, we could expect a normal temperature of 44 degrees. At the time, the warmest October was in 1889 at 49 degrees and the coldest was in 1881 with a mean temperature of 30 degrees. The average rainfall for October was .51 inches back in 1893. I...
