The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20
ST. Johns Day and Circus Day
Will Make This a Lively Week.
SMALL BOYS IN DEMAND
Adults Have Got to Take in the Circus
Somehow-The Evening Procession
OF Bicycles-"Mother Hubbards''
Prohibited on the Streets.


when the circus comes, and the man
who hasn't boy to take to the show
as an excuse for his own presence has
the sincere sympathy of those who
have offspring of their own. A boy in
a family is regarded as a nuisance
oftentimes, but when circus week
comes the lad is the pet of the house
hold. His health is tenderly guarded
and he is as carefully looked after as
a prizetighter on the even of a cham
pionship event. Woe to the careless
person who lets the boy take cold at
this critical stage of the game. The
fond parent, solicitous for the welfare
of his son, ostensibly thinks only of
the enjoyment of the lad, but in real
ity he is much concerned about his own
chances of seeing the show. He
wouldn't miss it for anything, but he
ence of the boy as an excuse for his
own attendance at the tent show. Now
and then there is man to be found
who admits that he is enough of a
boy to enjoy the show himself but
these are few. There is no good reason
why this should be so. A man has as
much right to so to circus as boy,
but his dignity, according to the I'M
written law, demands that he shall
have boy. Chauncey Woodwork,
julie Hartley, Dan Ross. q. A. Wolf
and a few others of their ilk have
been very industriously looking for
boys to take to the circus during the
past week. Messrs. Hartley and Wood
worth came in from the camp of the
land commissioners Saturday
night and spent Sunday in town in
order to be sure that the boys would
not all be engaged for the day. Wood
worth found a couple of youngsters
early Sunday morning and was happy.
Hartley was not so successful but to-
ward night got on a trail and found
what he was after. Boys who want to
go to the circus can be accommodated
in limited numbers, by calling upon or
writing to G. A Wolf or D. H. Ross for
the next two days.
st. Johns day will be celebrated Sat
urday at both Frenchtown and Grass
Valley. This day has for years been
one of the red letter dates on the cal
endar of Western Montana. The stor-
les that are told of the celebrations in
early days are still favorite yarns for
the old timers, like Harry Thompson
and Tom Mcleod. They tell some tales
that are certainly bound to convince
the auditors that the day has been a
big thing in the history of this part of
the state. This year there will be two
celebrations and consequently no lack
of opportunity for those who want to
help make the day this year a memoir
able one. There will be the usual
sports and races and dances that will
last all night and until late the next
morning. Nothing has been overlooked
that will help out the celebration and
Frenchtown and Grass Valley win be
lively points this week.
The procession of bicycles that can
be seen any night when the weather
is pleasant goes to show how many
wheels there are in this city. For its
size Missoula can turn out more wheels
than any other city in the West-that
is the testimony of travelling men who
have watched the evening parades this
spring. Old and young, men and WO-
men, boys and girls, black and white,
singly and in companies, on tandems
and on wheels of every conceivable
vintage since '65-riding fast and rid
ing slowly, sitting upright and bumped
up smiling pleasantly and wearing the
panied expression of the scorcher. rid
ing for business and riding for plea
sure, riding to get fat and riding to
get thin-so the procession passes and
repasses till night comes and dark
ness sends most of the wheels to cover.
1t is a pretty sight and one that at
tracts attention
Somebody is going to get hurt. how
ever, unless there is a sudden halt
called in regard to the habit of sprint
ing on the streets and on the big
bridge. There have been several mar
row escapes lately and a few accidents
but there will be a neck or two broker
one of these days, and then there viii
be at least one or two of the scorchers
who will not scorch any more this side
of Hades. There have been one or two
arrests this spring for scorching, but
the habit is not apparently checked
thereby. The true friends of bicycling
deplore this practice. as nothing tends
to bring wheeling into disrepute as
much as this perncious habit. 1t is
especially dangerous on the bridge, YET
this is a favorite scorching ground fol
some of the imheciles who ride with
their backs up and their heads down
not watching to see where they are go.
ing or whose safety they are endan-
gering.
The police have stopped one nuisance
at least, even if they have not YET
broken up the scorching club. The
chief has stopped the practice of the
denizens of the burnt district from APP
pearing on the streets. as they were
formerly In the habit of doing, clad
in their Mother Hubbards." The prac-
ticc had become so common and the
Wearers Of this peculiar costume had
extended their jurisdiction SO far that
the chiefs action will be warmly en-
dOrsed.
The new time card brings joy to the
hearts of the bus drivers and the hack
men. There is no night train, and they
will not be compelled to chase around
after midnight waiting for a train that
is reported as coming at II o'clock
and that does not get in till toward 3
The last train to arrive is No. >, which
gets here al 5:45 in the afternoon
When that is in, the bus business is
over for the day.
Great bargains in a complete line
of ladies' fancy linen skirts, just re-
ceived. Our prices are positively the
lowest in the city Chicago Bee Hive
Missoula.