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THE PHILIPSBURG MAIL
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By FLORABEL MUIR
Copyright 1939: By News Syndicate Co., Inc.
IN TWO PARTS--PART ONE
JIMMY'S GIRL SENDS
HIM WEST TO BE A COW-
BOY AND HE LANDS ON
A HOT RANGE.
You inquiring about the cook-
ing at the Wade ranch ma'am re-
minds me the first time I set eyes I
on Jimmy Nevins. He just had
shook himself from the west
bound bus and he was standing on
the corner in the wind, wiping the
dust outa his eyes and he was
near to crying. I was ordered to
meet him at Elkton by his uncle,
old Jim Wade, just like I'm sent
to meet you today by the same
Jim Wade. That's my job meeting
strangers to Wyoming on account I
broke my leg and can't ride no more.
As I was saying, there stood this
kid just out from New York and you
should lave seen his getup. He was
rigged to crawl a horse without no
delay. As Im approaching he stoops
to wipe off his shiny new boots. His
10-gallon hat drops off his red head
and rolls into the gutter just in front
of the Red Owl bar. Swipsy Dugan
throws all his greasy dishwater out
here to lay the dust, he says.
Too bad, kid, says I. It's all smeared
up. He turns on me like as if I was
the one knocked it off his head. "What
is it to you if it is all smeared UP?"i
he says smastic-like. Now out here
we're more or less sociable and not
iven to snapping at strangers like
ey was rattlesnakes and I tells this
kid to pipe down or I'll smack his
face.
With that he went stamping and
roaring around like that funny duck
you see in the movies. And he was
so comical all I could do was laugh
and the more I laughed the madder
he got. His face was as red as the
goat+ hair on his chaps and it lit up
the bright green handkerchief he had
rolled around his slim young neck.
Finally, he got plumb hysterical and
I grabbed him by the back of his
shirt and dragged him down to the
looking glass in the front window of
the Bright Dollar drygoods store an.
showed him how tarnation gooIy ne
looked all het up that-a-way.
Yes, ma'am, he cooled down some
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i+ Recently professors and psychologists
have had much to say regarding the I
"character" revealed in a person's t
"Doodies'--those unconscious little
scrawls and scribbles one makes on
newspaper margins, telephone pads
and the like. But in offering this en-
ertaining series of "Doodlebu_." he acls,
we claim no ulterior motive, we prezer
x think that most folks Just "doodle"
for funl So go to it with a soft pencu,
and see how many varied and amusing
expressions and types you c a:u create
from the simple outline heaas wmcn
will appear thispaper. Remember,
lt's the lates pastime, and "Every-
body's Doodling itt"
GRAZING TRACT
25,000 Aerea at $3 Per Acre
Agricultural Lands
In the Clark's Fork valley, terms of
10 percent down, balance 10 Teariy
payments, bearinq 6. percent mr-
rot. For further mtormauon, wne
Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
Lands Department
Drawer I?AS Missoul, Mont.
[
"What's the idea of this cir-
cus-get-up? Where did you
get them clothes?" he roars.
was re-elected ,president of the Central
Montana Highway association and
Lincoln ws chosen for the 1940 con-
vention city t he association's annual
meeting here.
MALTA--Tom McGovern, 56-year-
old rancher, was found dead under a
hayrack, apparently ,the victim of a
runaway five weeks earlier. HIS .body
was discovered by Robert Dyson, who
went to McGovern's ranch on an er-
rand.
HELENA--Montana had 290,000 tur-
keys grown for market on Sept. 1, the
federal agricultural marketing service
estimated. The estimate showed a sub-
stantial increase over the 248,000 grown
in 1938. but was far below the 373,000
produced three years ago.
MISSOULA--Ninety-eight men and l
two officers of Company L, Third bat-l
talion, Fourth infantry, will be brans-I
ferred here from Fort Lincoln, N. D. I
The transfer will bring the garrison
at Fort Missoula to 542 men and 21
officers. [
BUTTE--The civilian pilot training
course at the Montana School of Mines [.
will be limited to not more than 50]
students, all of whom must be enrolled
in the regular courses, Dr. George L. I
Shue, head of the department, an-+
nounced.
BOZEMAN--At the close of the first
day of registration at Montana State i
college, 596 freshmen had completed I
their applications for entrance for the I
fall quarter. This figure compares with
486 for the first day of enrolhnent last,
year. I
HELENA--The Montm]a national
guard will enlist 225 more men, Brig.
Gem John W. Mahan, adjutant gen-
eral, announced. Addition of this num-
ber, General Mahan said, would in-
crease the guard's strength about 20
percent, but will leave the regiment
still below full peacetime strength.
BOZEMAN--One hundred and thir-
teen registered Hereford yearlings were
sold for a total of $20,127.50 at he
first annual auction of the Gallatin
Owen Burns of Los Angeles. All were
¢Jouring Em'ope when the war broke
out. -
Reducing our agricultural activities
cannot increase our foreign markets.
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The 49 bulls averaged $213.57, with a
and gave attention to plucking tumble- I Anyway, she said she'd marry me but eluding Jim Wade, monkey around top of $410 paid by Frank Kuntz of
weed outa his fancy goat's hair chaps. I I got to make good first." without permission. When Slaver goes ! Whitehall.,
When he straightened up he gazed "Well," I says, "with the movies and to get the water, Jimmy sneaks up
fondly at his reflection and sort of],the adio and the wild west shows, a and helps himself to the disputed read- KALISPELL -- Following a re pot t
preened himself. I see a chance to l cowhand does get around nowadays." ing matter, from M. M. Atwater of Kalispell, who
introduce myself and ask him if he[ "Yeah," he says, "but I wanted to Was Slaver mad? I'll say he was. recently conducted a beaver survey on
was :the one expected out at the Wade stay right in little old New York and Boiling over. He let out a yell that ,the South Fork of the Flathead, the
ranch. He nodded and told me his save my dimes and get into the res- startled the coyotes lurking down state fish and game commission has
name and half apologized for acting taurant business of my own. I never among the willows on the creek so that recommended changes in the beaver
the fool. should have told Lenore about my they took out across the mesa lickety population. Some of tle beaver in the
"Everybody takes a look at me and uncle owning a ranch." , split. Jim has retired to recline on his sou,th fork area will be transplanted
laughs," he explains, "and it's made Yeah, that's how it was with him. ] blankets for a half hour of quiet read- to areas now barren of the animals.
A little chile pepino, this Lenore was, [ing, but he's dragged out by his heels
as I found out myself later on. And[b$ the irate cook, who is yelling all HELENA--T. O. Hammond, presiden.tl
she dug the spurs into Jimmy, to hear ] kinds of cursing threats. Jimmy man- f the First National Bank & Trust i
him tell it, never let him have a rain- ages to kick loose and get to his feet. Co., arrived safely in New York re-[
ute's peace until she piled him onto a (To Be Continued) cently after crossing the submarine-[
infested Atlantic from Gothenburg,/
me a little edgy, I guess. I shouldn't
have worn these clothes 'til I got to
the ranch."
I was just about to tell him he
shouldn't never wear 'em when he
went on to tell me how come he got
'em and how much it cost him. Said
he bought the white silk shirt and
the chaps from a movie actor stranded
on Broadway. The hat he said his girl
gave him. It cost her about a week's
wages 'cause it was a good one. He
traded his tuxedo and derby for the
boots at a swapshop.
I advised him to put his parade
suit away and wear his old clothes on
the ranch 'cause he'd more than likely
get his pretty white all mussed up
when he went to fooling around with
a bunch of slobbering calves. He said
that was all the clothes he had. He
was sort of wistful when he told me
he had shot his wad getting out here.
That's just what I thought and I
I made see that he got
a
resolve
to
proper pants on before them hyenas
down in the bunkhouse turned loose
on him. But he was deaf, dumb and
blind to all my hints and insisted on
barging into the dining room where
all hands were busy with their chow.
At first they didn't pay no attention
to him 'cause the setting sun was
glaring into the west window and sort
of shut off the view.
His uncle gave him a wallop on the
back that rattles t bones.
"Well runtl" he roars. Jim Wade al-
ways roars. I've often said if they ever
could figure a way out to harness Jim
Wade's voice they would have power to
furnish Elkton with e!ectriclty. Well
anyway he says next, You ve grown
Up some."
"Wat did you ex.p,,ct? Think I was
still wearing diapers? asks this fresh
kid f.rom New York. With that every
manack on the place perks up his
ears on account nobody around there
takes any liberties with Jim Wade. He
!s a big, beefy bruiser who can whip
ms weight in wildcats once he gets
riled up and for that reason nobody
much riles him.
It was then the gang took a real
gan. der at Jimmy Nevins and they
smc.ered out loud. The kid gets ft
all mght. He knows they're laughing at
him but he takes his seat at the dinner
table and without a word begins eat-
ing. His uncle has been telling every-
bo.. how this is his sister Katie's boy
ana now ne has come west ,because he
wants to be a cowboy but he stops in
the middle of a sentence and gasps. He
has Just got a real look at Jimmy
himself.
"What's the idea of this circus getup?
Where did you get them clothes?" he
roars.
Jimmy stammers and tries to explain
he thought he had himself rigged out
proper :or the ranch, but his uncle
ignored him.
"Get that monkey suit off him and
ve him some overalls," he directed
eet Dupong, the foreman. "Can't
have running around making fools
out o us. Ought to have been a girl
trom the looks of ,him. Puny yomag
cuss, ain't he?"
Gleefully them hyenas nod agree-
ment and the kid goes into his temper
again. The blood rushes to his face
and he likes to swell up and bust.
"I'm not so puny," he shrills. "I've
stood on my feet for 15 hours more
than once in Old Greenbaum's drug
store. I guess there's not many here
could do that.
"Who'd want to?" says Jeff Har-
ding. "If you're going to do any such
standin' as that it'd better be in a
saloon where you can get a shot or
two to hold you up. I ain't never gone l
in much for them fancy drug store]
drinks, .have any of you fellows? [
"I wasn't drinking at the drug store, t
I was working there. I was in charge
of the luncheons," says the kid
heatedly.
" h "
O , says Jeff, and he contrives to
ge plumb disgust into his voice. Jim-
my doesnt do any more spouting dur-
ling that meal. He shuts up like a
scared spid .and Just glares at any-
ooy ooking w%
You're right, ma'aml The trouble
with him was that he was plain be-
wildered.
"It's ftmny," he says to me, "that
they never planted any trees out' this
way. And lonesome l say, I think some-
times I'll go nuts Just from listenin'
to nothing/'
"Cheer up, sonny, you'll find plenty
of excitement when the time comes;'
I tells him. "What brings you out
this way, anyway?" 1
"My girl," he says. "She thinks cow-[
boys are swell. She's awful ambitious,]
Lenore is," he says eagerly. "She's
Irish, you see. Her name's Lenore
Brady. She wants to get around, travel,
see the world. She loves me, all right.
Wyoming-bound bus.
You said it, ma'am. It was a tough
'hunk of steak he cut himself not being
in any wise used to the kind of life
we live out here under the stars and
it seemed like nobody understood him
mch excepting maybe it was me, and
I'm bound to say that he had me
juggling for the answer quite a lot
of the time.
News Briefs
From the Treasure State
He was so plumb aggressive. That's KALISPELL--Mrs. P, oss Johnson has
what was eating on the boys. Instead been named temporary chairman of
of coming clean and saying to the the Little Theater gulld here.
boys as how he didnt know a thing
about cowpunching, he acted as if he HELENA--Tourist travel in Montana
had been born in a saddle and even recorded a gain of 11.3 percent in 1939
,the oldezt cow waddle couldn't give[over 1938, the state highway depart-
him no pointers at all. [ment announced on Sept. 15.
He pushes out the impression he]
knew it all, so of course the boys[ LIBBY--Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kienitz
lay for him. On account his uncle give I of the Hawaiian islands visited here
out orders they was to go easy, they recently. Kienitz was formerly pro-
couldn't show their hand but acted] priet°r of the Kootenai theater here.
gentle-like ,and when anything hap [ tIELENATourists bought 1,362 non-
pened to the young dude, as they called [ resident fishing licenses during August,
him, it always looked like he brought the monthly report to Gov. Roy E.
it on himself. Of course Skeet Dupong Ayers disclosed.
knew what was going on but he
couldn't call out any names.
Take the day Jimmy works with Jeff
Harding branding calves, for instance.
You ain't never seen any branding
done, I suppose ma'am. Well two cow-
hands go to work on the beast. If the
buekeroo holding the hind end knows
his business, he fixes it so he lets go
just a shade ahead of the front-end
man. In this way he keeps from get-
ting wallopeff on the chest by the
sharp little hoofs of the struggling
calf.
But Jimmy wasn't wised up on this
and all day Jeff on the front end kept
letting go just a split second too soon,
and the kid was black and blue at
the end of the day. He didn't know
Jeff was deliberately twisting his tail,
'cause that smart bird kept acting like
he was sorry as all get out.
His big break came, though, the day
he shot two fingers off the cook's
hand, but he didn t realize it at the
time. I think the shooting is pure ac-
cident, but most of the gang thinks
it's Just his natural oneriness oozing
ott.
BAINVlLLE--The 1941 district bas-
ketball tournament was awarded to
Bainville t the annual regional meet-
ing of coaches and superintendents,
held at Culbertson.
BROWNING -- Charles B e s s e t t e,
Butte printing shop proprietor, was in-
Jured near here recently when the car
driven by his son, George, collided
headon with a CCC truck.
KALISPELL -- Landscaping of all [
public school grounds in the city, to]
begin about Oct. 15, will be directl
by Herman Krogman of Butte. Twenty I
men will ,be employed. [
GREAT FALLS--An inspector of the I
civil aeronautics authority will be a
the Great Falls airport on Oct. 17 to
inspect aircraft, examine airmen and
transact other business.
KALISPELL--Work on a $65,000
street improvement project will be
strved here early in October. About
60 men and 2 foremen will be employed
for nearly a year on the project.
BOZEMAN--A carload of choice
The ,trouble commences when an ^ o ., o,e from he
automobile tourist gives the cook a ++ ...... +,,, .... o,.,,,e,, +o
magazine and Jimmy wants to read it. ++ ...... +.. ,. .... +,+ +o ,,,o ÷,,,,
-'+;,'+e,+'X+Th+'kl'thi'+jh' price of $9.60 per hundredweight on
.................... " ,the Chicago market
mlh.t as well peruse it while Slaver s
eoorm.g supper. LIVINGSTON--The howitzer corn-
The .magazine was carefh irolled] pany of the 163d infantry reglne.r of
up and pu on me .rap s e n me[Lhe Montana national guaru, sationed
cupboard on the ,b_,k end of he.cnuck [ here, las ,been ordered disbanded. It
wagon. You couldnt expec a enaer-I will be reulacod by an antitank ulao
foot like Jimmy to know the sacredness [ ,toon
of the chuck wagon, and how the
cook don t let nobody, not even in-] GREAT FALLSDr. H. J. 1W_cregor
Merry Moments--By Eg Margo
i
"I'll thank you to keep your opinion to yourself."
Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond were I
accompanied on the trip from Sweden
by their niece, Ruth Warner, and Mrs. I
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