Looking Back In Time
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The year might be changing but 1907 has been sort of good for us so we are going to stay with it for a little time in 2016 Let’s get to it and see what this week brings us...
The new lunchroom at the depot is open and being run by Mayor Newman. In addition to the counter, there is a very neat small dining room for ladies. The waitresses are dressed in black with white collars and cuffs.
Mrs. O’Leary, the famous chef, has charge of the kitchen with a good corps of assistance, and the place promises to be well patronized.
Editor’s note... When eating lunch downtown while working at the Lou Lucke Company, I would often eat at “The Beanery” as it was called back then. They had the most wonderful hamburgers and chili that you could ever imagine. And they had two older ladies running it who had been around for years and years. Too bad that place isn’t still running.
Yesterday, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Pepper were leaning over the back fence talking to each other. Mrs. Smith inquired as to where the new people were from who moved in on the other side of Mrs. Pepper.
“Judging from the look of their furniture, wherever they are from, they don’t amount to much,” said Mrs. Pepper. “Their name is Hanks,” she continued. “I don’t know them but I have heard about them. They moved up from Chinook and he works for the Board of Trade.”
Then related Mrs. Smith, “Their window shades don’t fit so they taped papers up to stop anyone from peeping in.”
“Well,” said Mrs. Pepper, “I guess they don’t have much because they told Mr. Clack they couldn’t pay him to move them until next week. And the oldest child is cross-eyed. The youngest is an imp and goes around with her stockings hanging loose and slides up and down the banister. And the woman has a fierce temper and boxes the children’s ears and that isn’t the worst! They say the way the woman gossips is just awful! I don’t think I shall have anything to do with her!”
The Dodson and Little Rockies Stage is running from Dodson to Zortman every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and it is the quickest and shortest way to the gold fields.
Editor’s note... An old timer named Rule Horner used to drive that stage. Then he got a job as a bartender at the Landusky Bar. He usually was attired in several pairs of pants to make sure that none of the holes lined up.
Ulysses Pleasant, a Chouteau County boy who had been sent to reform school about eight years was this week pardoned by Governor Toole.
Editor’s note... I might be mistaken but I think that is the son of Ma Plaz.
Adam Malone was in Chinook Wednesday purchasing supplies.
George T. Sanderson this week visited in Fort Benton being called on to testify as a witness in the case of the demented man who wrecked a Great Northern railroad train west of Chinook a few weeks ago.
A grand opening is coming for Oliver St. Germain’s ice skating rink. This rink will fill a long felt want for Havre. The management states that everything will be up to date and first class. No rowdyism will be allowed. We will cater to ladies and children and there will be attendants in charge who will be at the public’s service. The rink is complete with brand new skates and as soon as the weather gets below 32 the rink will open.
