The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-10
IT IS NOT A SUCCESS
Sunday Closing Law in Havre a
Failure.
REFORMERS ARE KICKING
They Insist That They Have Been Rep
resented-In Defense of New
man-There's Warm
Time Coming.

Great Falls, June 9.-The town eoun-
Gil of Havre had a meeting the other
night and matters of grave Importance
were transacted. In fact, whatever is
done at Havre in these days is of grave
Importance, and even the members Of
the town council take themselves seri-
ously and apparently expect the out
side world to do the same. And that
is all right, too, for the Great Northern
railway management has intimated
that unless the people OF Havre take
more heed to the welfare of their souls
and the manner of their daily walk and
conversation it is likely to move its
shops down to Pacific Junction and
cause Havre to become like the sardine
too long exposed to the sun. There
can be no doubt that the summer sea-
son of 1899 is a crucial period in the
history of Havre and that her future
largely depends upon her record dur
ing the next few months. Therefore 1t
behooves her men of council to take
heed to their ways to see that they are
right. But an ordinance which in it's
provisions is beyond common sense and
beyond all possibility of enforcement
will not make the town righteous
Havre has some of the best natural
advantages to be found in Northern
Montana. There is no reason why she
should not benefit by them and became
f1ourishing Junction point, but hypo
crisy will not aid her nor loud mouthed
assertions of virtue. A little harmony
among her people, little united eff
fort toward improvement and a total
disregard of demagogues seeking their
own profit will do far more for the adj
vancement of the town than all of the
hypocritical and stringent ordinances
that the council can pass in 10 decades
of centuries.
The town council had meeting,
Among other things which it did was
the passage of resolution denouncing
this office for telling the truth about
it's actions, and a curious thing appears
upon the face of that resolution. It was
nominally presented and signed by H
w. Stringfellow. He is careful COM
FOUNDER of prescriptions in Havre and
one naturally believes that man whose
lifework inculcates lessons of caution
and exactness would not be likely to
sign himself as alderman from the Sec
ond ward when he was elected as a rep
resentative of the Third ward and
knows very we'll that the Second ward
is represented by Messrs. Pepin and
Newman, the latter of whom is the OBJ
ject of the sympathy expressed in the
resolution. Neither would he be likely
to date his resolution on June 6, when
the date of the meeting was June 5.
Such errors as this are impossible to the
| man who is daily accustomed to COM
pound prescriptions written by physi-
clans where the substitution of NOR
phine for quinine is mistake Of fatal
effect and is likely to subject the COM
FOUNDER to a long term in the peniten-
a tinY- hn ln,v ID =, L,
resolution originated in other quarters
and that Mr.. Stringfellow only lent his
name to it. With this explanation, here
is the resolution:
Whereas, There was published in the
Anaconda Standard of June 2 an article
written by it's Great Falls correspond
ent purporting to represent the senti-
ments of a majority of the town coun-
Gil and the citizens of Havre, Mont,
in which insinuations and discredit are
thrown on our fellow councilman, L.
Newman; and,
whereas, The Standard has on sew
eral other occasions printed scurrilous
articles about Havre and it's citizens,
all emanating from it's Great Falls Of
flee: therefore, be it
Resolved, by the town council of the
town of Havre, That we condemn the
article of June 2 as grossly false; that
this council gives Mr.. Newman credit
for aiding it in bringing about the pres
ent reform; that the Sunday closing
law is not a failure, and that the man
who furnished the data to the Great
Falls office is unprincipled and an I'M
desirable citizen in this town; be it fur
Their
Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to the Anaconda Stand
ard Of Anaconda and also the Great
Falls Tribune.
H. w. STRINGFELLOW,
Alderman from the Second Ward
'Havre, Mont, June 6, 1884,
1t is a fact that in the past four or
five years it has become the unpleasant