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The Shell Building, Liberty Hotel and the Bamble Building are shown from the left in this undated photo. The Golder Rule, a store that predated J.C. Penney, was moving into the Bramble Building in 1914. Today it houses Holden's Hot Wheels.
We take a look at what was in the Sept. 12, 1914 issue of The Hill County Democrat for this 36th installment of this series celebrating Montana Territory's 150th anniversary and the 125th anniversary of statehood.
The high school was getting a new addition, a long list of court cases was also on the front page, along with the beating and robbery of two of Havre's Chinese residents, real estate transfers, of course news of World War I, and this on the upcoming Hill County Fair:
Hill County Fair
The Hill county fair for 1914 will open September 17th with everything in shipshape and an altogether excellent exhibit of grains, grasses and vegetables gathered from every portion of the country will be shown.
The fair this year promises to be larger and better than ever before in its history and the directors are greatly pleased over the outlook.
The amusement features this year are of a high class and have been secured with the single view of entertaining the crowd. For that reason the program is varied and is filled with entertainment features that are sure to please and delight everyone.
In addition to a high class racing program for both harness horses and jumpers the directors have secured some of the star performers from the Pendleton, Oregon and other Roundups who will furnish entertainment between the races, riding pitching horses, riding Roman and other races of a highly sensational character. Then there will be a balloon ascension each day with a parachute jump. There will be an Indian village at the fair, a band of braves and their people have been secured from the Belknap Indian Reservation. These children of the plains will put on races, dances and other pastimes for which these people have been immortalized in song and story. The live stock exhibition is one that should be seen by every farmer in Northern Montana for it will be an educational feature that directly interests the farmer. The directors have the assurances that this department will be filled with some of the best class of every kind of stock grown in this section of the state. The entries in the poultry division are large and Superintendent Campbell of this department believes that it will eclipse any formed showing ever made in Northern Montana. The fair ground is to be illuminated with natural gas from the Havre gas well during every evening of the fair and there will be something doing at the fair every night.
R. X. LEWIS, Secretary.
Here are some entries from the Social Pages, complete with misspellings:
Local Brevities
C. M. C. Taylor is in St. Paul this week on business.
Miss Lula Chestnut left Sunday for Bozeman where she will attend the agricultural school.
Mrs. James Saunders, who has a claim south of Havre, reports that her crops is the best in that vicinity. Her oats averaging over 25 bushel to the acre and flax 13 bushel to the acre.
Rev. L. J. Christler delivered a Labor day sermon Sunday evening to the union men of Havre. Chestnut's hall was packed to its capacity and his hearers were tentive listeners his subject being very interesting. Mr. Christler left this morning for Beaverton, where he will deliver a Labor day address and in the evening will be a prominent speaker at a banquet in Glasgow.
Probation Officer Devlin of Havre and County Attorney McGinley presented two cases of incorrigibility to Judge Tattan, and after a hearing it was decided that both of the defendants were candidates for the state reform school. John Crepeau, aged 13, and Philip Crepeau, aged 11, both of whom have been a source of considerable trouble to officers for some years on account of petty depredations and who seem to have got beyond control of their widowed mother, are taken to the school. The other case is that of a girl of 18 who insists that her name is Nemo Runyan, although the officers in this case have sought to place the girl in environments that would tend to her reform, but have not succeeded, and school is the proper place for her. This girl has quite a notorious carer in the vicinity of Geraldine, where she was arrested on a charge of carrying a gun. She has no relatives in Montana, so far as known.
Miss Lavina Allard, a homesteader who lived across the line from here, over in Blaine county made a protest to Andy Shanahan for trespassing on her land and forced Shanahan and his team back at the point of a Winchester rifle. Shanahan said he was not afraid of the woman and then started to cross her land with a gasoline tractor. Miss Allard carried out her threats by firing at a distance of 100 yards, striking the water tank of the tractor, which disabled the engine. Both made complaints to the authorities and as a result warrants are out for the arrest of both parties.
There was a large ad announcing the opening of the Golden Rule Store Saturday, Sept. 12. The Golden Rule was the precursor to J.C. Penney, and was to occupy the newly built Bramble building, currently Holden's Hot Wheels.
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