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This undated photo shows the Hill County Creamery and the flour mill mentioned in today's column. They were where KFC is located on 1st Street West.
By Emily Mayer
Havre received more good news along the line of new business coming to town. Both The Havre Plaindealer and The Hill County Democrat ran the following story on their Nov. 27, 1915 front pages:
BREAKING GROUND FOR A FLOUR MILL
Havre Plant Will Have Capacity of 50 Barrels Daily
Ground was broken this week for a flour mill in Havre, to be located on First Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues. Contractor C. M. C. Taylor has charge of the excavation work.
The mill is being constructed by M. S. Williams of Williston, N. D., and George Grogan, at present associated with the Mahon-Robinson Lumber company in this territory. The capacity of the mill will be fifty barrels daily, with preparation to double that should conditions warrant.
It is hoped to have the mill in operation during the early part of 1916, and it is expected that the machinery will be driven with power generated by Havre natural gas.
The men interested in the Havre plant are experienced millers, and the product of the local mill will be fully up to the standard of that produced by any milling company in the northwest. It is the belief that the local market will tax the capacity of the mill as first established.
The Plaindealer also ran an article boasting of the success of the Hill County Creamery:
CREAMERY DOES A
HEAVY BUSINESS
Taxed to Capacity to Supply the Present Demand
The report of the Hill County Creamery in this city for the month ending November 20, discloses some interesting data concerning the operation of this enterprise. During the time mentioned the creamery received 200 gallons of cream daily, from which was made an average of 500 pounds of butter. Daily sales of the company of by-products for the same period show that it disposed of approximately 25 gallons per day of buttermilk; and a like or even greater quantity of ice cream. Practically the entire output of the company is used on the local market, and for the month in question the creamery found it difficult to fill local orders.
The creamery pays 33 cents for butter fat, which is the highest quotation made by any similar institution on in this part of the state. About three hundred customers supply the Havre plant with cream, and they are separated as widely as the White Earth, N. D., on the east, Ethridge on the west, and Big Sandy on the south.
Because of the great increase in business the creamery management expects to make many improvements in its plant the coming spring. Besides enlarging to an extent that will enable the company to take care of its growing business, it is the intention to put in an invention of late design to treat the cream before rendering in such a way as to entirely eliminate the odor of the cream that is at times offensive, and which invariably develops in butter if the cream is not so treated. H. A. Tasker, manager of the creamery, recently received a score of 92 ½ on butter manufactured here, in competition with samples from creameries located all over the country.
The Hill County Creamery was located west of Havre, in the vacant lot between where KFC is on 1st Street and 2nd Street West currently.
Weddings were the big news in Arsee's "Society" column in the Plaindealer. Here is one of several entries:
Miss Ausk Becomes Mrs. Guay.
With Rev. Fr. Mahoney, celebrant of the nuptial mass, the marriage of Miss Ethel Ausk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ausk, and Edward Guay was solemnized, in the presence of the immediate relatives of both families, the ceremony taking place at the pretty chapel of the Sacred Heart hospital on Wednesday morning at eight o'clock. The bride, who is one of the popular young girls of the city, was attended by Miss Lumenia Guay, and was attired in a handsome suit of blue cloth, with large hat of blue, trimmed in mink and she wore a corsage of violets and bride's roses. The groom was attended by his brother, Mr. Joseph Guay. Following the ceremony, breakfast was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Hilla. The table was attractively trimmed in green and white, large shaggy chrysanthemums being used with graceful effect. After a short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Guay will be at home to their many friends in this city.
Sacred Heart Hospital was located where the Parkview Apartments are.
The Democrat printed the following on its front page:
GOURLEY HAVRE'S MOST UP TO DATE BAKERY AND CANDY KITCHEN
Havre now has the most up-to-the-minute candy kitchen in this section of the state. A business is judged by the quality of its products and the N. E. Gourley, products the candy line are up to the same standards that have been maintained in all of the other products turned out by the N. E. Gourley bakery. Not satisfied with the slow and sloppy methods of the ordinary candy kitchen Mr. Gourley installed the latest machinery for that line of work and augmented his new apparatus by securing the services of one of the well known candy men of the state who has new charge of the plant. There are certainly some surprises in store for you at Gourley's and this Christmas some unique Christmas packages will be on display at GOURLEY'S.
Gourley's Bakery was located where the Palace Bar is today, and people can see where the ovens were located in its basement on a tour of Havre Beneath the Streets.
And, for Beaver Creek Park lovers, this short article was printed on the Democrat's front page:
SOME PLAYGROUND
County Surveyor J. F. Daoust just completed surveying a play ground in the Bear Paw mountains south of this city that was given to the people of Northern Montana by the United States. It is 24 miles long and one mile wide and there will also be a large reservoir built on this play ground this winter to catch the water that comes down from the snow from the mountains for use for domestic purposes.
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