We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
It is the beginning of December of the good year of 1909. Christmas is just around the corner and the big bird has already come out of the roasting pan and onto the plates of hungry Thanksgiving eaters as Thanksgiving is over and the loving work comes across of getting the right present for a loved one and the right Christmas tree to put up Christmas Eve for that was when they went up at that time.
Of course there was depression just like now. People are people. I remember an old poem about what was thought about when in a depressive funk. It went something like this:
I am where the wood bine twinith
And where the dreadful spotted sloth mourns it’s murdered, martyred mate.
That is dreadful enough. Let’s look for something to cheer us up.
Uncle Archie says that happiness is to be able to spend his own money just as if he was going to have an expense account that someone else is paying.
Believe me said a long horned antler in Havre last week, “This city will soon have an Elk’s Lodge and all the trappings that attend this most delightful of all the fraternal social organizations.
Don’t fail to attend the Farmer’s Institute to be held Saturday next. Professor Shaw, the most knowledgeable agriculture lecturer in the world, will be among the principle speakers.
In football, Havre’s sturdy little eleven defeated the Fort Shaw Indian School in Havre last Saturday. The score was 7 to 6 in favor of Havre.
One of the prettiest weddings ever held here was last week when Nora V. Healey, daughter of M. J. Healey was united in marriage to Earnest Hays, an employee of the Great Northern Railroad. The bride, a daughter of the late Col. Healey, is a Montana girl, being born and bred in Chouteau County.
“I understand you have married.”
“Yes, unfortunately I have.”
“That will perhaps infuse new life in you, and you will stop with the mother-in-law jokes.”
“Alas, that is a thing of the past. The mother-in-law-jokes are no longer a joke with me.”
Just for winter Munsingwear Union Suits at Buttreys.
Mrs. R. X. Lewis entertained the 500 Club at her home on Alfalfa Avenue in the southern suburbs of the city yesterday afternoon.
What is not generally known about Bud Cowan of Big Sandy is he is a past master of the art of lariat throwing. This was conclusively proved at the past State Fair in Helena when in the presence of ten thousand spectators and not withstanding a strong wind which makes it bad for roping. He roped and tied down a thousand pound steer in 30.5 seconds. In 1895 he roped and tied down in 31 ½ seconds but was never able to best his own record until now.
