Celebrating history: Elks elect officers, new hardware offerings

By Emily Mayer

News was fairly light this week 100 years ago. Things were still happening, though, in our little part of the world. One of Havre’s oldest fraternal organizations elected its officers, and this article was found on the front page of The Hill County Democrat’s April 15, 1916, issue:

Elks Elect Officers

The local lodge of Elks held their annual installation of officer service in their lodge rooms in this city last evening.

District Deputy, Judge Roy E. Ayers, of Lewistown, whose function it is to install the officers was unable to be present at the installation and he ap...