Celebrating History: The more things change ...

By Emily Mayer

This week's column is a reminder of the old adage "the more things change, the more they remain the same." For all the current hopping up and down, finger pointing and bawls of "fake news" emanating from various persons from the highest office in the land on down, those of us alive today didn't invent that as the Nov. 2, 1918, edition of The Havre Plaindealer proves.

First, a correction. For all of the yammering of the political war between Hill County Attorney Victor Griggs and Republican and Non-Partisan League backed candidate C. R. Stranahan, I thought the two were on opposi...