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From Emily Mayer Great news concerning the new Masonic Temple was announced in the Nov. 6, 1915 issue of The Havre Plaindealer. WILL LAY CORNER STONE NEXT FRIDAY For the New Masonic Temple in This City With ceremonies befitting the occasion, which will take place in the archives of Masonry as one of the most important in the history of northern Montana, the corner stone of the $75,000 Masonic temple now in course of construction in this city will be laid on next Friday, November 12th. Officers of the Grand Lodge of Montana,...
By Emily Mayer Would you like to win a Ford automobile? One hundred years ago this week, the Elks just might get you a free vehicle, as was reported in the Oct. 30, 1915 issue of The Hill County Democrat: ELKS WILL GIVE AWAY A FORD AUTOMOBILE Havre Lodge No. 1201 B. P. O. E. are going to raffle a 1916 model Ford, fully equipped and the money received will be devoted to payment upon the lots on which at no too distant future an Elk temple will be erected. The lots are located in an ideal and central location, in the middle of...
By Emily Mayer The good news regarding the building of Havre and Hill County continued in the newspapers 100 years ago. The Oct. 16, 1915 issue of The Havre Plaindealer contained this announcement: EASTERN STAR WILL SUPPLY BANQUET HALL At a regular meeting of the Havre chapter of Eastern Star on Thursday evening, it was decided that the order would supply the table linens, silverware, queensware, etc. to be used in furnishing the banquet hall of the Masonic temple now in course of construction at the corner of 3rd avenue and...
My mom and her three sisters are — let’s say “quirky” just in case one of them gets her hands on this column. All four of the women are different, though I won't elaborate on their characters because I value my life. But all four have one common characteristic: They have spent their entire lives, consciously and subconsciously, in search of themselves, wondering constantly “who am I?” No one taught them when they were little — and their minds were big — useful cliches like: “w...
By Emily Mayer The Hill County Democrat ran a lengthy article regarding the building of the new Hill County Courthouse in its Oct. 9, 1915 issue. The article states that the building should be done and ready for business in January 1916, and that “the construction of the building is what is termed the Mushroom System composed of pillars and floors slabs, the same being reinforced with steel and it is an interesting fact to know that in the construction of this building that each story of the frame including the placing of f...
From Emily Mayer In the Oct. 2, 1915 issue of The Havre Plaindealer, there were several articles regarding buildings. This was one found on the front page, complete with misspelling: CONTRACT AWARDED FOR MASONIC TEMPLE Lease and Richards of Great Falls Succestful Bidders Lease & Richards of Great Falls were awarded the contract on Monday for the new Masonic temple, a five story structure to be erected at the corner of Third avenue and Third street. The contract price is $63,000 and this with the furnishings and equipment...
By Emily Mayer In the Sept. 4, "Darts and Laurels" section of the Havre Daily News Opinion page, a laurel was given to the efforts to change the name of Mount McKinley to its traditional name of Denali. The paragraph continued on to state that there are a lot of places and things named after President William McKinley, including a street in Havre. However, the Havre Daily News forgot the other prominent fixture named after President McKinley, that being Lincoln-McKinley school...
From Emily Mayer All kinds of exciting news about buildings was in Hill County in the newspapers 100 years ago. Work was starting to ramp up to get the buildings done as much as possible before the snow started falling. The Sept. 25, 1915 issue of The Havre Plaindealer had this short column: FARMERS ELEVATOR BUILDS LARGE ADDITION The Farmers Elevator company has just completed the erection of a large seed, flour and grain house, 40x60 feet, and remodeled their old elevator building, making this elevator one of the largest...
From Emily Mayer The good news regarding buildings in Hill County continues in the papers from 100 years ago. A few weeks ago, Kremlin celebrated the construction of a new church. This week, so does Gildford. This article was on the front page of The Havre Plaindealer on Sept. 18, 1915. DEDICATE GILDFORD CHURCH ON SUNDAY Vested Choir of St. Mark's will Render Music. Trinity church, Gildford, Montana, will have an eventful day this coming Sunday. For eight or nine years the...
From Emily Mayer The year 1915 was a busy and exciting one in Havre. This article was on the front page of The Hill County Democrat in its Sept. 11 issue: EXCAVATION FOR A NEW BUILDING The excavation for the new Buttery building on First street, opposite the Democrat office, was commenced this week and the work of erecting the building will be rapidly pushing towards completion. The new building will be a magnificent structure and be an ornament to that portion of the...
From Emily Mayer Havre continues its progression in the construction of new buildings this week in 1915 In the Sept. 4 issue of The Havre Plaindealer was this article on the front page: FRUIT COMPANY IN NEW QUARTERS The Lindsey Fruit company moved on Thursday to the Yeon building on Seventh avenue, in order to make way for Sweitzer’s, who will open in the Wright building on First street in a few days. A record was made in constructing quarters for the Lindsey company, the two stories and basement being put up in thirty d...
From Emily Mayer In last week’s article, I mentioned the James Holland, Sr. home was located at 504 Second Street. This caused a bit of exciting intrigue, and I would like to share it with readers of this column. I found this information in the 1915-1916 Polk Directory, which lists “James G. Holland” living at 504 Second Street. It lists other members of the Holland family living at 501 Second Street, so the 504 address was a typographical error. The directory also records M. A. Holland living at 502 Eleventh Street and D...
By Emily Mayer News from Kremlin is infrequently mentioned in the newspapers available on microfilm from 100 years ago. So, it was a real treat to find this article on the front page of The Hill County Democrat's Aug. 14, 1915 edition, complete with misspellings: CHURCH DEDICATED AT KREMLIN ONE OF DR. DAVIS' MISSION FIELDS WHILE HE WAS PASTOR AT HAVRE CHURCH BUILT GRATUITOUSLY Sacrement Administered By Rev. Van Orsdel The dedication services of the new Kremlin M. E. Church com...
By Emily Mayer There is a correction to last week's column. Josephine Broadwater was the daughter of A. J. Broadwater, not Edward Broadwater. Mixing the two brothers up was easy. It is similar to a parent yelling at one of their kids, only calling them another sibling's name - or two - before getting to the right one. A special and heart-felt thank you goes to Judy Ward for bring the oversight to my attention. A. J. Broadwater lived at 133 3rd St., right across the street...
Emily Mayer The big news in the papers 100 years ago this week was Havre's first Chautauqua. Various musical and vocal groups, lecturers and performers put on a six-day show in Havre and appealed to people of all ages. There was a very interesting article in the spring 2015 issue of "Montana, the Magazine of Western History" about the Chautauqua in Montana. Please give me a call if you would like to know where to purchase this award-winning magazine, and read about the...
Emily Mayer The year 1915 was not kind to socially prominent citizens. Havre lost another social matron this week 100 years ago, and the following was published in the July 24, 1915, issue of The Havre Plaindealer: PAID LAST TRIBUTE TO BELOVED MATRON Mrs. J. F. Daoust Buried in Calvary Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. John F. Daoust, who passed from this life on Tuesday, were held at St. Jude Catholic church yesterday morning. The church was crowded with friends anxious to pay a last tribute of love to one whose short...
There were quite a number of entries in the newspapers from 1915 regarding buildings and what was going on in them. Here is one of those entries from the July 17 issue of The Havre Plaindealer: HOPE TO COMPLETE EPISCOPAL CHURCH By November First of the Present Year. Regular services will be held at St. Mark's Episcopal church Sunday, July 18th, at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. After this next Sunday, the rector will be on a leave of absence for the purpose of arranging the way and...
By Lorraine Verploegen Your child doesn’t stop growing over the summer. Make sure he doesn’t stop learning, either. That is the message that the non-profit Read Aloud 15 Minutes wants parents to receive during its “Seize the Summer” campaign that kicked off on Sunday. Plant a Seed … Read is a partner in the Read Aloud 15 Minutes national campaign in Havre. Plant a Seed … Read is joining more than 4,000 Read Aloud partners across all 50 states who are uniting behind one simple yet powerful message: Read aloud 15 minutes. Ev...
By Emily Mayer Even with the big Fourth of July celebrations in communities, in schoolhouses or in fields throughout Hill County, there was still a lot of socializing taking place after the holiday. In the Havre Plaindealer’s July 10, 1915 issue, we find in the Burnham News column: The entertainment given by the Burnham Sunday school last Wednesday evening was a success in spite of the inclement weather. The proceeds were $13.00. Much credit is due to Mrs. Nora Andrews for the very excellent program and to Mrs. C. R. Sterrett...
By Emily Mayer The people of Hill County finally got the news they were waiting for. On the front page of The Hill County Democrat’s June 26, 1915, edition ran this headline: SITE SELECTION NOW SETTLED HILL COUNTY WILL NOW HAVE A COURT HOUSE NEW LOCATION SATISFIES ALL Work Has Commenced In Building Hill County’s Court House All the troubles of the county commissioners are ended at last relative to the selection of a court-house site. The selection of the Catholic church site seems to meet with universal satisfaction and all...
By Emily Mayer If anyone thought the drama of the Hill County Courthouse was over last week, they will be disappointed. This short article appeared on the front page of The Hill County Democrat’s June 19, 1915 issue: WORK ON COURTHOUSE STARTS THEN STOPS The contractors on the Hill county court house started to break ground Monday for the new building, but about 11 o’clock were served with notice by Commissioner Neilsen to suspend operations. The foreman pulled off his teams and wired his employers in Missoula, but unless the...
I could have been a surgeon. That is one possibility. Political geography, architecture and anthropology — intense fields of interest. I sigh at lost possibilities. Now and then I think about them, the latter three. Raised when and where I was, none of the above vocations were realistically within my reach. Nurse, secretary, school teacher — my limited options. I didn’t have a passion for any of them but knew the first two were out of the question so settled on the teach...
By Emily Mayer A big step toward the building of the new Hill County Courthouse took place 100 years ago this week. On the front page of the June 5, 1915 edition of The Hill County Democrat ran the following headline: CONTRACT FOR COURT HOUSE AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MISSOULA BID ACCEPTED Plumbing Contract Is As Separate And Distinct One At a special meeting this week, the Hill County Commissioners accepted the bid of Olson & Johnson, Missoula contractors for building the court house, at the...
By Emily Mayer The saga of the Courthouse continues in the Havre newspapers 100 years ago. In both the Havre Plaindealer and Hill County Democrat's May 29, 1915 issues, a letter from T. J. Troy appeared, and he was clearly in favor of a block of land being offered for sale by the Catholic Church trustees. It had been announced earlier in 1915 that the Catholic Church was going to construct a new church/school, and church members decided to offer the land where their church...
By Emily Mayer The problems pertaining to the Hill County Courthouse continued to make headlines 100 years ago. In the May 22, 1915, issue of The Havre Plaindealer, we find this story on its front page: ASK INJUNCTION TO STOP COMMISSIONERS From Concluding Latest Move on Courthouse Site. Through Attorney W. B. Rhoades, P. C. Barrett, James Holland and C. F. Morris yesterday filed an injunction against the board of county commissioners to restrain them from purchasing the...
