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News you can use
By Emily Mayer
Just like today, it was campaign season 100 years ago. Unlike today, candidates didn’t start campaigning before the polls closed for the previous election. Non-stop, 24/7/365 campaigning was unheard of back then.
Local candidates filing for the primary election for office included Roscoe Timmons and Bill Holdorf for Sheriff; Arthur Lamey for County Attorney; George Glass, Clerk of the District Court; Al Cameron and C. A. Young for Treasurer (not to be confused with C. W. “Shorty” Young, Havre’s vice king. The two were not related.); William Cowan for state Senator; John F. Mathews for County Assessor (the office nowadays has been combined into the duties of the Hill County Treasurer); and Jim Holland for Coroner (this office was combined in later years with the Sheriff). Each candidate gave a short statement how he would conduct the office if elected. No long-winded speeches, no attack ads.
With that, the circus was coming to town. This article was printed in the July 10, 1924 Havre Daily Promoter.
BIG LEGION CIRCUS AND FUN FESTIVAL IN MAKING
The American Legion circus committee met last night to formulate further plans for the legion circus and fun festival which will open at Havre, July 22 and continue the remainder of the week.
The circus will be held under a big top tent, 250 feet long by 150 feet wide, with all the atmosphere of a real circus. Fifty people and many small trained animals will take part in the daily programs.
The circus will be held for the entertainment of the general public. Both old and young will find something each day that will be of interest and enjoyment to them. The proceeds will be used to build a legion club house and part will be given to finance the Boy Scouts.
Tickets may be had from any Legionnaire and the admission for the five, nights, with a distinctive show each program, is 50 cents. In conjunction with the circus a standard Ford touring car will be awarded the last night.
The American Legion leaders addressed the Havre City Council, which was considering other issues, among them street paving. Please pay attention to how the paving was financed. It hasn’t changed much in over a century.
TRAFFIC ORDINANCE MODIFIED BY AN AMENDMENT, FINES LOWERED
If Arrangements Can Not be Made With County to Board City Prisoners, City Will Build New Jail
An amendment to the present traffic ordinance was introduced by Alderman Hagen at the regular meeting of the city council last night. Mr. Hagen’s amendment lowers the fine to $10 for the first offense, with a $25 fine for the second and the same amount for the third with an added jail sentence of 10 days. The council adopted the amendment and will use it until the city attorney writes a similar one which will be adopted later.
The Worlds Amusement company was granted permission to show for five days commencing July 22 in the city under the auspices of the American Legion. E. C. Stevens, commander of the local post of the American Legion, explained the show to the council members and said half the money raised would be used to finance the Boy Scout movement here.
The council decided to take steps immediately to form a special improvement district to embrace the proposed paving project presented by the city engineer.
The city engineer was instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of concrete sidewalks and curbs for the ensuing year and he was also instructed to notify all property owners with property adjacent sewer connections who still have outside toilets and vaults that they would be given 30 days in which to abolish them and that action would be taken at once by the city attorney for failure to comply with the sanitary ordinance.
A committee was appointed by the mayor to confer with the county commissioners in regard to allowing the city prisoners to serve their sentences in the county jail and if the committee fails to reach a satisfactory agreement with the commissioners, then to advertise for the erection of a new city jail.
The council purchased the drag which has been used recently on the streets for a price of $200 plus the freight charges from Malta to Havre.
The proposed streets to be paved were Third Avenue down to Tenth Street (it stopped at that location back then), parts of Second and Fourth Avenues, and parts of Second, Third and Fourth streets. We still enjoy them today and they remind us every now and then how old they are.
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