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News you can use
by Emily Mayer
St. Mark's Episcopal Church continued its progress to completion this week 100 years ago. This article was found on the front page of the Sept. 23, 1916, issue of The Havre Plaindealer:
'FINISH HER UP' MONTH
Rev. L. J. Christler and the Vestry committee of St. Mark's Episcopal church launched the "Finish Her Up" campaign yesterday with a generous distribution of a special edition of The Havre Plaindealer. The announcement contained therein was gotten up in a most unique manner and when the boys went out at noon time to pass out the papers, they caught the eye of everyone. In the special edition is an excellent cut of the church when finished. The article accompanying the picture emphasizes the significance of a church building and gives a statement of the funds raised today from outside sources and from the people in Havre.
The campaign for finishing up the church will last one month and is for the purpose of raising the balance of money needed to accomplish the same.
The subscription committee of which Joseph Allen is secretary and treasurer, will being its work on Monday.
Be Prepared!
During Festival Days weekend, St. Jude School celebrated its centennial. This article was published in The Havre Daily Promoter's Sept. 25, 1916, issue:
NEW PARISH SCHOOL SHOWS RAPID GROWTH
In the recent establishment of The Catholic Parish school, Havre has obtained a new educational institution of importance and one which has already become an object of local pride.
The school is being conducted in the new Parish school building on Fourth street between Sixth and Seventh avenues East, recently constructed at a cost of $15,600.
That there was local demand for such an institution is evidenced by the fact that already nearly 100 pupils have enrolled. No longer will it be necessary for Hill county parents of the Catholic faith to send their children to Great Falls or other cities to obtain a combination of secular and spiritual instruction.
Pupils now in attendance upon the school are divided almost equally into three classes which are instructed by two Sisters of St. Francis, who have had years of successful experience in teaching. These are assisted by Miss Louise Cole. Negotiations are now under way that will result in the engagement of another Sister who will come highly recommended from one of the most noted and largest of the Eastern institutions.
The course of study adopted is that of the Hill county schools and the text books used are in the main those used in public schools. This arrangement obviates some of the inconveniences that would otherwise arise when the children are transferred from one school to the other.
The opening of the Parish school at this time is most propitious as the public schools, owing to the rapid increase in the population of Havre, are crowded and Superintendent Abbott with the best will in the world, has found it difficult to provide room for all the children.
The object of the Parish school is to provide religious instructions and moral training as well as secular knowledge for the children.
At present five grades are taught but later other grades will be added.
And the Wobblies just won't quit. This article was also in the Promoter's September 25th issue:
Has Encounter With W. W. W's.
Conductor J. A. Ling, while taking a freight train up the high line Saturday, had an encounter with about six W. W. W.'s at Rudyard.
Ling discovered the men riding on the train and put them off, but not before having to handle them in a pretty rough way. Ling is over six feet tall and a big strong fellow, otherwise he would have had a great deal of trouble, as the men were a surly bunch. However, after ejecting them, and while jumping on the caboose, one of the men hurled a stone at him which struck him just over the eye. Outside of a bad bump, he is none the worse for the mixup.
Perhaps this group was part of the pack sent on their way last week from Havre. At any rate, the Promoter's Sept.26 issue had a large column detailing the cases against the Wobblies, calling it "I. W. W. day in Judge Pyper's court."
I saw these entries in the Hill County Democrat issue of Sept. 23 and know of at least a few people in Havre - and beyond - who will be interested to read:
Lou Lucke yesterday received copy of a photograph taken before the civil war. It was a group picture of the members of an old time "little German band" that used to furnish music on the streets of Peoria, Ill. One of the members of the band was John Lucke, paternal grandfather of the recipient. Mr. Lucke prizes the picture of his ancestor but says if his band were to appear on the streets of Havre today the instruments at least would be shot full of holes.
The Lou Lucke company has begun work on an up to date dry cleaning establishment to be located in a new building now being erected on a lot in the Lucke-Taylor addition in South Havre.
The first column is interesting not only about the picture, but also indicates Havre was not immune to strong anti-German sentiment as World War I raged in Europe. As for the second entry, the old Lucke dry cleaning building is still standing next to an alley that connects to Tenth Street between Third and Second Avenues on the south side of the street.
Here is a wedding announcement from the Society column in the Plaindealer, especially for fellow Simpson area residents and descendants:
Wedding Party
A very pretty wedding occurred at the Grand hotel in this city Wednesday, when Mr. Charles E. Pailthorp and Miss Lavina B. Evans, both of Simpson, were made man and wife. Rev. O. P. Shenefelt, pastor of the M. E. church at Malta, performed the ceremony. The bride wore a gown of blue taffeta silk trimmed with white lace and carried a bridal bouquet of American beauty roses and sweet peas; the groom was garbed in the conventional black. The bride is a sister of Charles E. Evans, editor of the Broder Call, at Simpson. The groom is one of the prosperous ranchers in that neighborhood. The young couple will make their home on a ranch five miles north of Simpson. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Evans and son Franklin, and Marshall and Ross Pailthorp were guests at the wedding. The couple will spend their honeymoon at the Glacier Park.
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