LOOKING BACK IN TIME

This is the last column of newspaper stories for 1909. However, through the magic of old newspaper stories, we will continue on with 1909 in January. But for now, let’s see how it all ended up!

There are still Christmas trees available at the Havre Commercial Company. They have been drastically reduced in price after Christmas.

At the beginning of the New Year, 1910 just think of it. The citizens of Havre are so optimistic about building the city into the best anywhere. So many things happened in 1909 to make the city civilized instead of the range town it has always been. Those same things happened east on the Milk River at Chinook.

To make cities, that is what we are there for, the city is strategic. He who makes the city makes the work. After all, though men make the cities, it is the cities that make the men. Whether our national life is great or poor, whether our social rites are great or small, whether our climate is soft or extreme, it all depends on the city.

Yet we all hear every so often, “What is the use?”

Your local merchant does not ask for your trade simply because he is doing business in Chinook. That is an important consideration but he wishes for your patronage mainly because he can give you better service and sell you goods as cheaply as anyone can buy anywhere. Why not keep your money at home?

Nothing succeeds like town development when two or more are gathered together let there be some community development. We have all heard that we are going to have sixteen thousand people in Havre by 1916. Let’s make that happen!

C.W. Young will leave about the first of the year for San Francisco where he will attend the aviation congress that starts there on January 10. He expects to meet his father there, a practicing physician of Buffalo, New York whom he has not seen for fifteen years.

In Judge Pyper’s Court, he asked the plaintiff, “You accuse the air pilot of trespassing?”

“Yes Judge, I caught him in my air currents.”

E. C. Carruth took a part of land seekers out in his auto last night to locate on homesteads north of town.

Mrs. J. S. Almas entertained the Tuesday evening club at her house in the city last week and the ladies enjoyed a delightful evening.

A new club has been organized in Havre consisting of several of the most popular young men of the city for the purpose of giving some dances this season. They have taken the name Alamo and intend to give the people of Havre some real swell dances during this spring season.

Mrs. George Tangent arrived in Havre last week. She is well known here and will be here until well into the New Year. She is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. X. Lewis