The stories of Lincoln and McKinley schools

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.

McKinley School was constructed in 1904 to alleviate the overcrowding at Havre's first permanent school, the Washingt...