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News you can use
By Emily Mayer
Havre’s activity intensified in preparation for all that was going on for July 4th. Everyone was getting into the act for the state Elks convention, and this article was printed on the front page of the June 22, 1924, Havre Daily Promoter:
SPECIAL RATES GRANTED ELKS TO HAVRE
PRIZES WILL BE HUNG UP FOR BEST BAND, BEST DRUM CORPS AND NEATEST APPEARING LODGE IN PARADE
Fare and one half, regular rates, has been granted by the railroads to members of the B. P. O. E. to attend the state convention in Havre, July 3,4 and 5, according to information received yesterday.
The fare is on the certificate plan. Certificates have been mailed from Havre to the various lodges and will be filed out by ticket agents when tickets are purchased. No particular number will have to be purchased.
Information which has been received by the committee in charge is to the effect that large delegations may be expected from all parts of the state, some of them accompanied by drum corps and bands.
As a result the local committee has offered a prize of $75 for best band in the parade July 4, $50 for the best drum corps and $25 for the neatest appearing delegation.
Plans for the entertainment features are progressing. Work on the platform will be started during the coming week and the builders expect it will take ten days to build the booths, platform, dancing pavilion, etc. While work is progressing it will be necessary to rope off part of First street where the work is being done.
That dancing pavilion would be completed by the end of the week, as evidenced in this article printed in the June 28, 1924 Promoter:
DANCE TONIGHT
The new open air pavilion erected for the Elks’ convention and the Fourth of July celebration, will be opened this evening with a public dance. The Radio orchestra will furnish the music.
Great anticipation for the boxing match scheduled for July 4th was also heating up, and this short article was found in the June 27, 1924, edition:
Johnny Schauers Due Today for Training
Johnny Sauers of St. Paul, is due to arrive in Havre today to start active training for his bout with Speed Currin of Milwaukee, the afternoon of July 4th.
Johnny is one of the best known boxers in the Northwest, and has a long string of victories back of him. His record of ring battles reads like a city directory. It contains a list of 126 names, many of which are familiar to even the casual reader of boxing news.
The boxing match was to take place at “Broadwater’s Half Acre”, but I am not familiar with the location. If anyone knows, please contact me!
This editorial was printed in the June 22, 1924 Havre Daily Promoter, and in light of the recent changes at our local newspaper, it will be shared here with you faithful readers:
YOUR HOME PAPER
Havre is the largest town on the main line of the Great Northern railway in Montana, but as cities run in population it is not very large. It possesses several distinctions, unique for a town of its size, and one of them is that it is the smallest city in the world enjoying a daily paper with both the day and night services of the Associated press. It is the smallest town in Montana with a daily paper and so far as we have been able to learn, the smallest in the country with that distinction.
In the publication of a daily paper in Havre, therefore, there are some difficulties not met in other towns, the population and business world from whence come the customers of the paper-subscribers and advertisers-being less than in other places with dailies. That means, generally speaking, less revenue.
Every time a business institution goes out of business or a substantial citizen leaves the community the newspaper is hit to the extent of losing a patron. In the past few years there have been a lot of substantial institutions cease business and thereby the list of the paper locally has been reduced.
When a business house in ne line of endeavor quits other institutions in that same line benefit through there being less institutions to cater to the same sized population, but the newspaper feels the loss of a patron whom it is hard to replace for there is none to take the vacant place.
Therefore the success of a paper depends on the cooperation of the community and upon united and continued support, a support which it has ever been the aim of The Promoter to merit through publishing a newspaper that should reflect credit upon the community and render it a real service.
In doing this the paper has been opposed to those things considered bad and has supported those to be desired, ever seeking to maintain a publication that the most critical parent need have no fear in permitting a child to read at any time.
Every dollar of the money taken in for advertising, job printing and subscriptions goes back into the institution-into the producing of your daily paper. The institution which gets it out is one of the largest and most important in the community.
The importance of patronizing the home printing establishment in view of this becomes apparent, for the money spent goes back into a home institution. It is penny wise and pound foolish for any local business man to send away for printed matter. The charges of the local printer in almost every instance-the quality, workmanship and service, and other conditions being equal-compare most favorably with the lowest possible to be obtained anywhere.
The better the local support, therefore, the better the paper.
In order to get the best kind of paper The Promoter needs an advertisement from every business man and a subscription from every home. In return it will increase the merchant’s business and it will keep the subscriber in touch with the world, the natin, the state and the community.
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