Celebrating History: News in society

By Emily Mayer

All of the local news was found in the Society column and the “Of Local Interest” social pages. A birthday, farewell and other gatherings were all documented, and here are a few from the Society column in the Feb. 16, 1918 edition of The Havre Plaindealer, complete with punctuation error:

Birthday Reception

On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. L. J. Christler entertained at the rectory on Third avenue in honor of Mrs. James Sherry. The occasion being in the form of a pre-Lenten dinner to a number of Mrs. Sherry’s friends in commemoration of her birthday. The affair was a complet...