News you can use
News you can use
By Emily Mayer
People a century ago enjoyed campouts, vacations and fun community events like we do today. They loved going to the Bear Paw Mountains and Glacier National Park as well as enjoyed picnics and gatherings at the abandoned Fort Assinniboine. Here are a few articles related to tourism and community activities found in the Havre Daily Promoter 100 years ago this week.
In the July 13, 1924, edition were these articles:
DEMAND FOR LOTS EPWORTH LEAGUE CAMP GROUNDS
Word received from Dr. C. G. Cole from Glacier park states that the development of the rounds for the Epworth League Institute to be held from July 21 to 27, is progressing rapidly.
People are mailing in their requests for purchase of lots in the beautiful 40 acre tract on Lake MacDonald, and the prospects for a much larger institute this year is good.
The members of the facility are outstanding specialists and the different leagues of the state are viewing with one another to excel in delegations. The Havre league expects to send a delegation of at least 15 or more.
Rev. VanValkenburgh and family will leave Havre Tuesday morning for two weeks at the park. Mr. VanValkenburgh will join the workers at the grounds next week. The Misses Rose and Mable Elwood will accompany the VanValkenburghs.
Reverend VanValkenburgh was with the Methodist church.
Woman’s Club Plans Camp Fire Unit
The program committee of the Home Economics department of the Havre Woman’s club, met at the home of Mrs. W. S. Davis Friday afternoon to plan the work for the coming year.
One feature of the work decided on was the organization of Camp Fire Girls’ clubs. Mrs. Ed. Sundberg will be in charge of that work and asks that any girls eleven years of age or older, who are interested meet at her home, 615 Fourth street Friday afternoon, July 18, or phone her at 391.
TOURISTS ARE COMING
Yesterday afternoon a reporter was sent out to find out how many tourists were in the city, people from other states and countries, and in the course of a two hour trip around the city in the afternoon he counted 28 cars, the license tags on which showed that most of the occupants of these cars stopped here and spent some money, practically all being customers for gasoline and oils, while some of them visited the local stores.
California and Colorado have reaped vast wealth from the tourist business, and with the development of interest in the beauty spots in Montana this state will reap even greater returns.
In the July 24, 1924, Promoter, we find:
BOB LUCKE HEADS CHAUTAUQUA FOR 1924
Plans for the 1924 Chautauqua in Havre were perfected last evening at a meeting in the court house at which officers for this year were chosen.
The officers elected are Robert Lucke, president; Lulu Linebarger, secretary; Frank Merrill, treasurer; Mrs. F. O. Stromberg and C. Holihan, advertising committee; C. B. Elwell, ground committee; Art Williams, Eler Hanson, Mrs. A. L. Decker and Mrs. E. Wilcox, ticket committee.
C. R. Stranahan was temporary chairman of the meeting last evening.
David Norcross, representing the Ellison-White Chautauqua, which will book the local attractions this year, was present and spoke to the meeting. Mr. Norcorss said that an unusually fine program had been prepared for this year and that the people of Havre will be given the finest treat Chautauqua has ever brought to the state.
GIRLS LEAVE FOR WEEK’S OUTING AT ROTARY CAMP
A number of girls chaperoned by Mrs. Chas. Houltz, Mrs. Brodie, and Mrs. O. O. Andvik left last evening for a week’s outing at Camp Rotary. Those in the party are Lear Erler, Amelia Erler, Florance Peterson, Camilla Andvik, Minerva Liggett, Josephine Liggett, Juanita Houltz and Margaret Houltz.
MEN’S WELFARE CLUB MEETS TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the Men’s Welfare club will be held at the banquet rooms of the Presbyterian church at 6:30 o’clock this evening.
The program will consist of reports from the chairmen of the various committees of the President E. M. Allen will outline the work to be done by the club this summer and fall.
An excellent cold supper has been planned by the food committee, to consist of a salad, cold meats, pickles, bread, butter, coffee, ice cream and cake.
And in the July 19, 1924, edition’s editorial page, we read this:
VACATION TIME
’Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work’ was the instructions to the first man by a Divine Creator, when telling how a human should live, and then was added in the injunction to rest on the seventh day.
The Creator realized that the human machine, like all other machines requires rest and o in the plan of life He decreed that one day out of even should be set aside for rest.
But the process of life, the strenuousness of living, the strain of existence owing to the complexity of modern civilization has made it necessary for man to rest even more than in the beginning of creation, and so we have “vacation time”.
Summer time is vacation time, a time set aside when every person should change labor, get away from their duty commune with nature, and rest from work. To be fit, physically and mentally, it is absolutely necessary that a man should take a vacation.
There are those who do not, who believe that work demands their attention or that the calls of business are such they cannot get away, but if they stick to their tasks without a vacation in the end they pay the price in lowered efficiency and vitality.
There is no business and no work that will not profit if the worker takes a vacation.
I can’t help but add this short little article found in the editorial page of the July 16, 1924, for my friend, Mr. Tim Leeds. I’m sure R. G. Linebarger, editor of the Havre Daily Promoter, was just as frustrated as Mr. Leeds was with his odyssey with printing machines!
THE LATE PAPER
Breaking one of the important parts of the press on which the Promoter is printed, caused a delay in the publication of the paper Tuesday as the damage was not repaired until almost evening, when the paper was printed and delivered.
Mr. Leeds, you were in excellent company!
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