Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-03-07
CORRESPONDENCE
GARNTllL GlIANlNGS.

Frank Crockett and wife from Missouri ~
rived this week. They viii make tAr,5 home
here for the future.
Big Jake Moore. whohas been helping Stew
art & Smith In their logging ,amiH has come
back to town. Jake Is one ct lhr lest station
airy engineers in Montana. Ills services viii
soon be In demand in the different logging
camps and the merry foot OF hi, whistle viii be
heard in the land.
DIR. Thompson, the dentist, and family have
come TO make a home among us, and every
kid that has been bowling with atooIAackc and
keeping the folks awake At night iUr tic past
six months has taken to the brush,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hart and Gentleman Jim
She'll came in from one of the suburban VII
lagos to attend the fancy dress tall,
II the Philbrouk correspondent oi the ARGUS
will run up to Utica and gel five fingers Of Ed
Morris best and Eds best will he 4 pOemin
the Juice of the rye-and have Il charged TO
links, it will in a measure cance' the Debt We
owe for the delft way in winch be reduced that
adult OF Utica who SUI plies the suffering
from that burg for the Eagle to clnder and
no doubt by this time he has received a cord OF
thanks from the good people ol Utica to further
compensate him. It's rather j hard PROPOSE
ton to handle thing Ike that fellow, for the
first move one makes It is liable to bring linn
into trouble with cthet the game laws or the
society of prevention Of cruelty ~ animals. or
both. II is rcstful 10 kuuw there Il only az e of
the fellows kind IN Utica and that the lteed Of
the paper that will publish such stud !. almost,
If not quite. extinct. By the way, do you have
in mind the Eagles Satisfactory, There was to
be no personal abuse in Il, columns. nothing
20 janglc with the feelings o. TIE most sensi-
tive. The blue pencil ut tie cclsut had been
worked into the proprietor, old vocabulary TIL
it resemhled the map Of Texas. The dirty
fingers that had suilel the Democrat Lad been
washed and LARSEN had paid fur the soap. In
fact, the Eagle WAS to be a clean, well .laun-
dried bird, whose principal diet was 10 be lilies
of the valley-any other diet less pure would
have caused its stomach to rebel. Now. my
gentle scribe, you of Philbrnuk, on the banks
of the romantic and historical judith, the song
the Eagle sang may have caught your musical
ear. but ii was different with the ear Of links.
for at that time ] said, Gas, natural gas !
O find that ! was wrong and wish To- correct
that and say / was sewer gas" 40, my boy.
1t was the old story over again OF Balaam and
the ass Balaam did the steering and the ass
did the talking.
The fancy dress ball given here on the night
of Feb. q was the quintcssenCr Of high inks
from start to finish. The starr logan about the
time the most dissipatrd old hen had stuck her
head under her wing tor the night and finished
about the time pap usually gr,. W 10 pail
the cow" The late corners were treated 10 one
of those surprises concocted by Old man Glass.
who runs the short order weather shop IN Hell.
ena, in the shape OF d bowling. sowing biz.
card out of a clear summer sky. Somebody
must have set the clock back on the old man,
for II Il was his diabOllcal Intention 10 SPOIL the
fun he missed it 10y about three hour, aud had
to content himself with wearing uUt his old
blizzard on some poor cyI ot q stage driver.
the only party licensed to he cot al that time.
That reminds me. Mr.. Reader. did Il ever occur
TO you, while you were plfro.ing under four
pairs of ten pound blanket, stA your head
tunneling into a big, fat pliluN ut g1Usr ieaih-
ers and your toes t~nasting un a hot water bag.
with a marrow freezing blizzard beating atHo.
step ON the glass of your window t.a, out IN
the storm was a poor, delulcd laal ,irr.rr-a
hero, every inch of him, from Nermar s,lk, Ia
earmutfs-with stifcned finger Tagging At
the lines to keep hts leader l- the tan. and
the last wv hours OF Jurc--.g vtt4 the
of leader In the shape az .gi &C. l~arg.rr ,yh,,
whiskersI What a graphic dr-fIg,,a uf a
Montana blizzard those ID.glr BE-. Ala gIye II
they would only talk Vhca ta,. gcrr lr.nu
thawed out they say ihrg .u. Sa4i did.
you say. gentle reader you'd rr..- y..r. n a
thought Well, neither have T. ... r,.4,,sr.
ticular time. But al. the same. g.rr. 49,.
Watt Polly and Charlie Wlalm climb onto
the box for a night TIP o. Lev .l4a. a.r. the
wind blowing holes IN t4r gr.H md tg..
snow cutting like a lawn m,arl a.,..sy g.,..
pear into a hole IN the nig5i end a.. ,ar lu,.
In after them, | have sad, TIYg. U7e. tart-
goodbye, Watly, old son, uf.Yfla s,, u.r,,
come In on the return TIP l1 hs!.4r f.ur
looking as serene as Il they lst u.y Irrn
around the block. So putting 'age,lr- ALL Tea.
heard and seen, I've come o. The Y,.-.g.u,
that a mail carrier has npre flu ma g,t
than a goat In a pea. patch. VIA. Odd yl. ,5
serve, Mr.. Printer On, yuu as-,rg D.. t..,
about the ball. Well, II va, "a auAIr,,.,rs
as everything in Garne.ll Is. from as.a, n,
christenings. Everybody sad they re,., 80.
pected to have such a goods time ae,-l ,y,I,
and the last thing ! saw. While aa,ry an NJ.
stoop for a policeman " com. s,ury ~ t,s, I
could borrow a key-hole To- get mn MI. bou.r
by. was his honor, the mayor afr,.eg =. ,be
ghost In Hamlet. throwing si-.-s ate, , A.
parting carriage that contained be-. yr.y nah
of the dance Lydia Pinkham. J,sv.
Garneill. March 3. IgOD.