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News you can use
By Emily Mayer
The good news continues this week in Havre a century ago. Like today, the year 1924 saw a lot of rainfall and for the first fourteen days of June, it was reported 4.62 inches of precipitation had fallen, which was making farmers very happy. An interesting agricultural related article was printed on the front page of the June 15, 1924, edition of the Havre Daily Promoter:
CRAWFORD WEEDER TO BE PRODUCED IN CANADA
W. M. Hoskins has just returned from Canada where he has been to interest capital in the manufacture of the “Crawford A Weeder”.
After demonstrating at the Alberta agriculture experiment station, he entered into a contract with the Lethbridge Iron Works Co., Ltd., for the manufacture of not less than 5,000 weeders each year for five years.
As this is one of the largest manufactures of farm implements in Canada, this endorsement speaks well for the patent, a Havre, Montana production.
W. A. Crawford of Havre is the inventor.
The June 19, 1924, edition of the Promoter had a proclamation by the mayor regarding the Good Roads initiative:
PROCLAMATION
(BY THE MAYOR)
In order that the people of Havre and Hill county may unite in an effort to improve the country roads, thereby securing the blessings of better highways, and cementing the bonds of friendship and cooperation, it is hereby ordered and decreed that Friday, the Twentieth day of June, 1924, be set aside by the people of Havre as Good Roads day.
In observance of this day all business houses, public institutions and professional offices are asked to close for the day, that employers and employees may give the time to work on the roads.
The men of the city are urged to give their services to road work and report for assignment equipped for duty.
Through cooperation let us make this the banner Good Roads day.
Done at Havre, Montana, this 18th day of June, 1924. W. C. McKelvy, Mayor.
The June 21, 1924 Promoter carried an article outlining the work done on the roads the previous day:
GOOD ROADS DAY RESULTS PLEASE PROMOTERS
TWO HUNDRED MEN REPAIR FIVE MAIN ROADS LEADING TO HAVRE; MOUNTAIN ROADS MADE SAFER
Good roads day in Havre was an entire success and more work was accomplished by the man who worked on the roads yesterday than ever before, President E. M. Allen, of the Men’s Welfare club said last night. Two hundred men working from early morning until dusk repaired five of the main roads leading into the city.
New roads were built, old ones constructed, bridges put in, culverts made, holes filled, rocks removed and many other things were done by the crews.
The Beaver creek road was repaired by a crew of 50 to the Rotary camp, a distance of 18 miles. A new road was built and part of an old one was repaired by the men. The old narrow, rocky, dangerous road above the second crossing was rebuilt and widened for a distance of 100 yards. It is now possible for vehicles to pass in its narrowest places.
The Clear creek gang, 20 strong, reconstructed the bad Box Elder hill, 12 miles southeast of the city, lowering grades so that it is easier for cars to climb it in rainy weather. They also built many culverts and picked several tons of rock off the gravely stretches.
The Bull Hook road was repaired by a crew of 25 men who rebuilt all the culverts and bridges that were washed out this spring by the high waters. This road is in excellent shape to the second crossing on Box Elder creek.
Buttrey’s crew, numbering 75, started at the Canadian border filling in all the holes and leveling the road bed, putting the St. Joe road in fine shape.
The Wild Horse trail gang at 130 repaired this road in the same manner as the St. Joe road was done, covering a distance of 14 miles during the day.:
Those good roads were going to come in handy for all the Fourth of July activities. The boxers who had matches for the third and fourth of July were busy training and it was announced that all but a few seats had been sold. This event, along with other happenings including the state Elks convention, promised a busy Fourth of July holiday for Havre. But, they hit a little snag and the community was being called to help in this article printed in the June 20, 1924, Promoter:
MORE ROOMS NEEDED FOR ELKS’ CONVENTION
The committee on rooms to take care of the large number of visitors who are expected to be here in Havre on July 3rd, 4th and 5th are not receiving the response they should receive from the people of Havre.
The city is going to be full of visitors, and Havre must take care of them. The hotels and rooming houses cannot take care of the large crowds that are going to be here, and every housewife in the city should be prepared to take care of as many visitors as possible.
The committee has decided that $1.50 for each person be charged per night and is a fair price.
Please telephone to the Grand hotel, Rockwell café, or Havre hotel and list the rooms at once. Be sure and give street address and name.
In the same edition, R. G. Linebarger, Promoter editor, added this in his editorial column:
HAVRE’S HOSPITALITY
With a three days’ celebration, incident to the Fourth of July and the state convention of B. P. O. E., which will be held in Havre at the same time, this city will be called upon to entertain a large crowd of visitors, some estimates placing the number at several thousand with more than a thousand needing sleeping accommodations.
This being the case the appeal that has been sent out by the committee in charge, urging people to arrange to open their homes to the visitors, is timely.
The hotels and rooming houses will be unable to take care of the throng that will come and accommodations will have to be provided in private homes.
The hospitality reputation of the city demands that the city do not fall down in taking care of its guests.
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