The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-12-02
LIFETIME SPANS
ALMOST CENTURY
MRS. EVERETT, 96, REMEM-
BERED ON BIRTHDAY-BORN
IN CONNECTICUT

Mrs. c. H. Everett enjoyed her
Goth birthday anniversary lat
Saturday, November 26. A number
of her friends remembered the
happy occasion with birthday
cards and congratulatory mes
sages. Mrs. Everett wishes through
The Herald to express her appre-
citation. She says: 81 desire to
take this opportunity to express
my thanks and appreciation to my
friends and acquaintance who so
kindly remembered me in thought
and deep on my ninety-sixth birth
day"
Mrs. C.. H. Everett.
AS Mrs. Everett looks back over
a useful life Of nearly a century,
she can think that this life has
spanned nearly two-thirds the life
of this country as a separate ma
ton. She was born in Connecticut
shortly after Martin Van Buren,,
the eighth president had been cleo
ted to the presidency. Born in the
house in Sharon, Connecticut, built
by her grandfather, and still stand
ing. By that time the original IL
states had doubled their number.
Texas had just seeded from Mex
leo and was recognised by the
United States as an Independent
nation. The foundation of a great
and powerful United States had
been laid, but it's development has
all been within Mrs. Everett's life
time.
During this time there have
been wars-the Seminole war in
Florida, war with Mexico, the
great and devastating Civil war,
the Spanish American war and
finally the great World War. There
have been recurring periods Of de-
preston, loss of faith in the gov
eminent, financial slumps and bank
failures.
Periods of prosperity have al
ternated with the periods of de-
preston and the country has gone
forward step by step with each
period of expansion. Mrs. Everett
was just entering her teens when
gold was discovered in California
and the faces and footsteps of
many adventurous men were turn
ed westward. She was past 60
when the Klondike gold rush set
other hearts to beating and turned
other feet frontierward.
Galva, Illinois was a frontier
town when Mrs. Everett, her hus-
band, Russell Everett, and their
boys settled there in 1865. For six
ty-seven years she has been a
member of the Congregational
church of Galva and has the dis
tinction of being its Oldest living
member.
She came to Wolf Point Is years
ago when this town was in the
pioneer stage, and has since made
her home with her son, w. B.
Everett.
The first passenger railroad had
been built just a few years before
Mrs. Everett's birth and the Erie
canal was opened about that time.
But many railroads were to criss-
cross the continent and to open up
for development the vast wilder
ness of the west. Inventions that
were undreamed of in her girlhood
to become commonplaces.
Electricity has been put to thous-
ands of uses; horse-drawn car
riages, the everyday conveyances
of her youth, are something of a
curiousity, while the horseless var
iety and even airplanes are accept
ed without wonder by the children
of today. The voices of people 1000
miles away come to us more plain
ly by radio than the voices of peo-
pie so feet away. These are only
few of the changes that have
come about.
1t has been an interesting per-
iod in which to live, and as each
succeeding milestone draws her
nearer to the century mark, her
friends are glad indeed to join in
extending congratulations to Mrs.
Everett.