LOOKING BACK IN TIME

Well, we probably did enough to poor old 1907 to last a few years. Let’s move on to 1909 and see what we can find out about that interesting year. It is mid November and the subtle reader will notice that there are big differences between 1907 and 1909. The modern age is creeping up on those old Milk River towns that had been known as the blood buckets of the west. Civilization is coming and many citizens are more than ready for it!

John Bailey received five hundred thousand black speckled trout from the government hatchery at Bozeman. They were shipped here by Lewis West who is in charge of the hatchery, and were received in fine condition by Mr. Bailey, who has expertly prepared barrels on hand for the storage of the fish. It is planned to put them in Clear Creek and perhaps a part of them may go into Box Elder Creek. For the past ten years trout have been planted in the mountain streams about Havre and Chinook. As a result those streams have been among the best fishing streams in the state.

Ed. note…………could this be the beginning of Bailey’s Reservoir west of Havre?

Young O’Brian asked his intended if she loved his singing under her window last night.

“Yes,” she said, “And my father heard you too.”

“Oh my, my singing is terrible said young O’Brien.”

“Don’t worry; father thought it was the cat!”

The Rev. L. J. Christler returned the first of the week from a business trip to the Twin Cities.

Bear Paw Jack Griffin was in Chinook from his ranch on Clear Creek. He was purchasing supplies for the winter.

Cold weather will soon be here. You will buy nice warm clothing for yourself and family. There are some who will be unable to do so. They would be glad to have some of your last year’s clothing that you have discarded. Bed clothing, suits and parts of suits, shorts, hose, shoes overshoes, all are needed. For old and young they are needed. If you could supply some of these articles, we will find those who need them. Send them to the Methodist Parsonage or send word and we will pick them up. From the Methodist Ladies Aid Society.

Mrs. Walter Mack, one of Havre’s young matrons entertained at her home in the city at an autumn party. The hostess did not depend upon the serene foliage of the mournful cottonwood but transported boughs from the glorious woods of Minnesota where the falls of Minnehaha flash and glow among the oak trees. The transformation was made with great garlands of oak and maple leaves whose gloriously rich tints gave a warm color to the whole interior of the house. The leaves hanging from the curtains and pictures were representing happy boughs falling from frost kissed trees.

The chandeliers were green and brown as were the tally cards and they were bound by brown ribbons. The decorations came from Mrs. Mack’s native state of Minnesota. Wild red berries also peaked from between the spaces from curtains to curtains.

Ed. note………………….Mrs. Mack was the grandmother of Charlie Gallus.

For rent……………………………log den 15 by 20 in excellent residential portion of the city. For particulars contact R. X. Lewis.

Through his own conclusions, most of whom will probably never be known; a man met a horrible death in a box car west of Havre the last of the week. One of the brakemen discovered the car was on fire. The train was stopped and the car set out but the flames were at such a point as to make ineffective all efforts to quench them. In the debris was around a body with the head and hands burned off and the clothing burned away from the body so that no papers were found that might help identify the person.

It is thought the person got into the box car to get warm and lit a fire thereby lighting the whole car on fire. Why the door would not open will remain a mystery.