The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-10-21
BRICKS FROM BAINVILLE

Poor old Bainville, leading a for
lorn hope and playing a single
stringed Convenience fiddle, has
has been fighting a very fair cam
paign until the last issue of the Val
ley Tribune which vents its spite and
envy in a way that does little credit
to the editor or the community he
represents. He seeks to suggest to
his readers that because Wolf Point
has some nice, stable, modern build
ings, that as county seat she would
expect the people of the county to
"build a marble temple for a court
house. Everybody knows that the
building of court houses is in the
control of the people through voting
on the bond issue. Until Roosevelt
county and its people are in far bet
ter circumstances than at present,
Wolf Point as county seat would not
expect or counsel the building of
any thing not required by absolute
necessity, and whatever might be
built by the county in the near or
distant future would be paid for by
the taxes of Wolf Point to ten times
the extent of those of Bainville. The.
Bainville editor in a two-column ar
ticle hands out all the slurs he can
think of about our fine hotel, u big
auditorium, our railroad terminal,
our modern theatre, our band and
school and the other things that Wolf
Point has that go to make a city
worth living in.
Too Good For Farmer
The inference is that these things
are too good for the farmers to en-
joy, that when they spend a few days
at the county seat they should live
on crackers and cheese or coffee and
doughnuts, sleep on a cot at the
livery stable and never dream of
enjoying a theatre, a dance or a
plunge bath. Brother HER seems to
think that we have no business to be
parading pictures of these fine things
before the eyes of the east end peo-
pie. Poor old Bainville, the other
contestants have been very easy with
her so far, but the fact is. she hasn't
a leg to stand on, she is 8 miles west
of Mondak, and that's absolutely the
only advantage she can claim. The
branch line train that makes her so
wonderfully convenient" to every
body in this end Of Montana, goes
right through Mondak the same as
through Bainville. 1t wouldn't be ,
worth the expense to move the coun- :
ty seat from Mondak to Bainville. :
Wolf Point wishes Bainville no i'll, /.
and hopes she will prosper until she
is a fine little city, but at present she
has nothing to offer the public for
the county seat location except that
she is close to those that happen to
live close to her, and that is true in I
a greater degree of all the other t
three contestants, because Bainville /
is the smallest of the four who are {
seriously considered. {
Bricks For Bainville \
The Tribune asks its readers :
Glow many bricks can you carry to ,
Wolf Point?" and we wish to re- :
mind them that whatever the num- :
Der is they will have to carry many
times more to BainviIle before it be- :
comes a suitable and creditable place
for the county seat of our splendid I
county, and we wish to remind them |
that Wolf Point does not believe
there is anything too good for the {
people who till the soil and produce
the wealth, that when those people
come to spend a season at the county
seat they are entitled to comfort and
entertainment and Injuries, even, if
they want them. Wolf Point does
not believe that the farmers should
be asked to put up with such conven-
fences as a town like Bainville a /
furnish when there is something bet
ter to be had. Wolf Point has her
modern improvements constructed
and paid for. Envious Bainville is c
hoping to get hers paid for through
winning the county seat prize. The t
farmers whom Bainyille refuses to
consider for county officials would t
have to pay the bills.