The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-26

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to let his neighbor have the sport of
receive than it can be to give-this is
the righteous motto by which these
people live; they deny themselves the
exercise of ~shoveling the snow: they
leave it to their neighbors for the
Golden Rule says so.
DIR, NJ. ]. Elrod returned yesterday
from Bo2eman, where he attended the
annual meeting of the
ELROD state horticultural so
BACK. ciety. BoZeman, he
says, is busy with
meetings. The session of the state
horticultural society has just come
to a close; a number of annual short
courses are being conducted this
month by the state college: the farm
ers' grange is to be held there soon;
the county superintendent of schools
are meeting there; the state dairy
mems association is to hold its an
nual session in the city. 1t is a
mighty busy town. The people of
RoZeman treated us ~Splendidly and l
had a fine time says the professor.
Large audiences turned out for all
the sessions of the society and a keen
interest was taken by the city in ev-
erything that went on. The next
meeting of the horticulturists will be
held in Missoula.'
With Or. Elrod came sunshine and a
| chinook. Heartily have we rcviled the
doctor for a week be-
WEATHER cause of a mOnotOnOuS
CHANGES. program of snow and
more snow that robbed
us of the chance for a daily paragraph
on the weather. Herewith go our
apologies. w" didn't stop to consider
the fact that the Weather Mar could
mt attend to our complaint when he
was busy with other matters on the
far side of the divide. He has ex-
planned that he left his first assistant.
who is not skilled enough in his trade
to change the Weathe or short order,
in charge of the local plant. When the
doctor left he had everything arranged
for a pleasant week of snoWstOrms.
All that the assistant could do was see
that nothing went wrong with the
machinery. He didn't know how to
shut off the snow. DR.. ElrOd fixed
things just as soon as he landed in the
city and furnished a real spring
weather all day. A warm wind and
a bright sun made the snow level drop
a foot and filled the streets and gut
tiers with water Another day or two
of the same sort of weather and there
won't be any snow at all. Water
dripping from the caves Of the court
house yesterday disclosed a border of
grass as green as Phil kenny's Sun
day necktie. The warmth and wet
ness took all the jest out of sleighins
and gave belated snoWshovelers an
easy chance to join the ranks of the
good citizens. 1t was a dose of spring
and we are thankful to the doctor for
it.
We were just on the point Of praisine
the sturdy honesty Of western Mon
tana people for not fol-
WHAT lowing the p~reccden
NEXT established by L. d
Howard who declared
that he saw u robin on New Years
day when StcVenSVillo spoiled the
good record by producing the poor,
oVcrWorked mid-Winter bird. So it
goes. A man sees a sca-svrpcnt and
within Il week the same sea-Serpent Is
reported from the four corners of the
globe. L.. /. Howard declares that he
had a personal interview with a robiI
on the first day of the year and tn,
St~eVenSVille Register, thinking the
reputation of the village assailcd, goes
Howard one better by seeing a Robir
with a capital r." The worst thina