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We return to Hingham for the 39th installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory and 125th anniversary of statehood. The Friday, Oct. 2, 1914 issue of the Hingham Review contained the following articles:
TO CULTIVATE A PARK
After almost three years trying, all we have in the way of a park is one block of land with a fence around it and the band stand in the center. The trees are nearly all dead and the weeds have gotten the best of the grass.
A movement is underway, although we do not know of any definite arrangements being made, to remove all the trees from the park and keep the live ones buried until spring, and remove the stones which are placed at the edge of the walks, and to plow the whole thing under; then in the spring to replant trees and place them far enough from the fence to cultivate between them and the fence, and to work the ground occasionally all summer. It is believed by many that this is the only method by which we can get the trees to grow and kill the weeds.
We are never discouraged at Hingham, and we will “try, try, again,” and in the end Hingham will be the most attractive and most progressive town along the line.
SCHOOLS WILL OPEN MONDAY
Next Monday, Oct. 5th, the local schools will open in the two school houses and the building on Central Ave. formerly used for school purposes.
The foundation to the new school building is now completed and the work is being done with as much expedition as possible, but it will no doubt be some time yet before the building can be used for school purposes.
It is hoped that all the parents will start their children to school on the first day and see that they attend regularly during the entire term, so that their work may be most satisfactory.
AFTER LARGE GAME
Dr. A. A. Husser and F. L. Spaulding left last Friday for Belton to spend a couple weeks hunting. We expect that the deer, bear, buffalo, etc., will begin to arrive by express in a few days. Dr. Palm of Joplin is attending to Dr. Husser’s patients while he is gone. Also Dr. Hopkins of Gildford is doing some work at the Sanitarium.
Dance Arrangements
About 15 couples had a good time dancing at Kimpel’s hall last Saturday night. The orchestra consisted of Lonien, cornet; Gummer, violin; Harmon, slide; Mrs. Lonien, piano. The music was excellent. Later on arrangements will be made, we understand, to give four-bit dances weekly all winter. Jerry Kimpel says he will be well satisfied if he can just get the freight out of the hall, and the musicians will also be reasonable. We move that some one who knows the new dances teach some of them to others, so that local people when attending dances in the city will not have to sit around all night.
Later-Arrangements have been made to use the Hingham Drug Co.’s Victrola for music and the first dance will be given a week from Saturday night, Oct. 10th. Gentlemen will only have to pay 25 cents to dance all night. Ladies free. If this music is not satisfactory the orchestra will later be engaged and the price for tickets can be fixes at about 50 cents.
And, some great news items in the social pages:
Local News Items
Miss Winifred Husser, after visiting three weeks with her brother, Dr. A. A. Husser, left Monday for her home at Santa Ana, Cal. She and Sidney Dalrymple autoed to Havre, where she took No. 1. Miss Husser made many friends during her short stay at Hingham.
W. J. Jones has ripe water melons of a good size on his farm 18 miles south of town.
Elmer Ladwig says he wishes the party who stole seven of his ducks would come back and get the other two.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Myers entertained a luncheon four of their bachelor friends, mostly Hoosiers, who were as follows: Martin Sebastian, Wm. Adler, C. J. McCallson and Berkley Walker. It was a rare treat for the bachelors, this chicken, fried Hoosier style, and we hope they pull off a like stunt frequently. Mr. Myers has made a good showing on his north side farm. His crop of potatoes and other vegetables is wonderful for this season. He also has a field of red clover which is doing fairly well.
Berkley Walker was the owner of the Hingham Review. I took a little time to research Hoosier fried chicken and based on the information I could find, the chicken calls simply for flour, salt and pepper with an emphasis on the pepper. It is also pan-fried in steel skillets with the oil reaching about half-way up the chicken pieces. Deep frying, according to die-hard chicken-frying Hoosiers, is the “lazy way”. If any Hoosiers in Havre can tell us more, please do so.
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