LOOKING BACK IN TIME
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It is a new year but we are going to stay with 1909 for a while yet as it is just getting interesting. Lots going on. Let’s start with the Dodson Dam.
A well known resident of Valley County who was in the city yesterday is authority for the information that the Dodson Dam is three quarters completed and that if the weather continues favorable the crest should be affixed by March 1. Construction work is being trusted to the utmost, three gangs of men being worked in eight hour shifts, says the Great Falls Tribune. The dam will be the cheapest one of that character ever built, the total cost being estimated at around a hundred thousand dollars.
Alvin Lucke entertained a number of the younger crowd at a dance party at his home on Third Avenue. Refreshments of sandwiches, chocolate and cakes were served. The party broke up at midnight.
Ed. note………….this does not refer to the Lucke house at 900 Third Avenue which was not built until 1914 but another that the family rented at the very end of Third Avenue.
At Buttreys Bargain Basement there is five thousand dollars worth of merchandise on sale. All half off and all ready to wear.
Sheriff R. C. Timmons spent yesterday in Laredo on business matters connected with his office.
In the last six months there have been 175 animals running free in town and over two thousand dollars collected in fines.
Don’t forget the Devlin Garage, corner of First Street and Fifth Avenue. Store your car during the winter in a steam heated building. Cars rebuilt and repaired. Taxi service day and night. Phone 626. Signed L. K. Devlin, owner.
University and college students who have been spending the last two weeks in their homes, have now left yesterday for various institutions of learning. Going back to the University at Missoula are George Wilson, Marcia Patterson, Owen Haley, Margaret Hamms, and Dan and Eugene O’Neal. Charlotte Broadwater left for Corvallis, Idaho. Dorothy Langston left for Bozeman and Troy and James Curran left today for school at St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Worth Clack entertained six couples at a dancing party at his home on First Avenue last night. There were many young people in attendance.
John Barry of Laredo won six games out of eight from Lewistown horseshoe pitchers in a tournament held at that town on New Year’s Day.
Harry Green was in town yesterday from Big Sandy.
Tracy Gee, charged with assault, was found guilty and fined fifty dollars yesterday in the court of W. D. Pyper. Gee will appeal the case according to his attorney Victor Griggs.
