The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-04
SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
A Review of Local Events as Chron-
icled by the First Issue of This
Great Family Organ.

Seven years ago yesterday the first is
sue of the HERALD saw the light Of day.
III was issued from the room now occu-
pied by the Oak Palace barbershop. The
intervening years have been full of
change, (small change, without much of
it coming into our Golfer. People of
Ncihart have come and gone, until the
town of today bears but Slight rcsem-
blance to that of seven years ago. This
is the pioneer newspaper Of the Belt
mountain country. Starting in Il
8X10, with Il Misunderstanding, cuss-prok-
ing Washington press, we have introduce
ed power presses in Il capacious office Of
our own, and have II little less than TWO
THOUSAND subscribers. To cnlightcn the
world, the HERALD has appeared in 1856
issues, including the present.
The flat, unfoldcd paper which has
gone into HERALDs would make II stack
1872 feet high. Folded, in the octave
shape sent to subscribers, and stacked,
they would make a tower l,216 feet in
height. The flat sheets. laid side to side,
would carpet more than 80 acres, Each
regular subscriber for that period has
had 10,24S columns of reading matter,
whose lineal length, columns set end to
end, would reach 33 miles. The lines
of reading, if arranged in II straight
course, would extend to Il point beyond
Great Falls. Reader, pause and think
of 81 miles of unvarnishcd truth,
All these years we have continued to
chronicle the movements of men and
things, appearing with regularity each
week to tell our little tale of "camp
notes." of what the people here and
elsewhere are doing Believing Il re-
view of happenings seven years ago will
be of interest to our readers, as well to
old timers as to those Of more recent 10,
cation, we append the following:
Seven years ago today VIM. Mueller
runs a general merchandising establish.
ment, in the same room he occupies to.
day. Gregg Bros. have II hardware store
lust two doors west, while between
them W. II. Banks, proprietor of the
Neihart hotel attends to the public want,
in approved style.
L
Tom Dwyer is proprietor of the Man
itoba house, and gives the public gooC
accommodations, both board and bed
S The Frisco hotel, Geo. Rochl, proprictoI
has recently been opened as il tirst-clas'
I house. Mrs. c. A. Allen and Mrs. J
Lawrence are each operating iirSt-claS
restaurants in the best part Of town.
+ Chas. Crawford is the only gooo
blacksmith in Ncihart. shop on the
corner of Main and Granite. He has re
sided here seven years and acquire,
:. much valuable property. II. NJ. Wilson
is engaged in the livery businsS at the
same place where the first settlers founc
Z him when the town was discovered. liz
. is one of the towns main standbys.
: Jno. S. Cook is the leading contracto
L and builder of this town, with O.. l.. lla
= berbush for a strong competitor. in,
Calkins is the man to do your pape
d hanging and kalsomiming. b. F. Badg
v er is the reliable brick and stove mason
Falligan & Yeaser run Il meat market
d and Michael Powers is their competition
d. B. Mccain owns the only drugstor
S in the budding city,
Thomas & Crawford, Mayer & Wilso
and H. G. Klenze are driving the loca