The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
Talk Of the T0il,,l


Generally raising
Ned.
For notice that our police force L
once more packing
His club.
l wish they'd catch the brute.
Whoever nc IL.
For every time see a bull
! Laughing one Of those nasty clubs
! think u wave OF crime"
Is OH.
/ No sooner do take account
or Batch's spectacles.
And the Country club,
| And the tin cops
| And all our other evidences Of civil
ization
Than along comes cop.
| Swinging his death dealing billy,
| Showing the world that we're
Wild -
And woolly.
! Then the whole world knows tina,
Missoula,
Instead Of being a we'll behaved,
up-to-date,
Rah-rah town,
Is still -toting. dangerous
| frontier
And visitors scuttle back to their
| trains.
Scared green, but thankful for the
Tip.
+! It's fine ad for a city,
This business OF logging out tn.
force
Like a riot squad.
And besides.
Who ever heard Of a Missoula cop
Being caught by a criminal?
| One doesn't need Il bludgeon to arrest
Speeders.
Or jaywalkers.
Or college Quartets.
Search me-"
club.
] think it's joke, Ii you ask me.
Why don't they let us pack
| Guns.
II they want to intimidate the
| town."
Well,
| Why not
| There are persons who complain that
Missoula offers too few distractions
after sunset. To such no entertainment
is apparent unless 1t proclaims its
presence with electric signs and half
page newspaper advertisements. Such
persons cannot discern diversions like
these, observed in five minutes last
evening:
a husky soldier, uncomfortable
| playing nursemaid to two squirmins
three year. ODDS:
\ startled bartender, regarding in
blank wonder a grasshopper transport
ed by some freak chance to Higgins
avenue;
! 4 woman wearing furs, escorted to
a soda fountain by a coatless, sport
| shilted man;
| An Indian maiden with a bandann:
tnrban. a blanket and French heeled
! high topped mauve shoes;
\ street-corncr explanation lin fiy,
rersions) OF the draft regulations.
| No vaudeville show ever offered hall
as much entertainment as any street
In any community will give on su
mer evening.
| AZ loss for diversion. one can al
ways find delight in watching a Mis-.
soula policeman twirl his club.
| Savasely red was the sunset last
night. the first one this year to b.
colored by smoke from forest fires
During the afternoon n yellow CLIQUE
spread out along the western horizon
| uhtil mountains and sky paled like :
photograph dinmcd by the sun. Every
thing westward seemed washed ont in
the daylight. But as the sun move,
down into the smoke the west came ia
brilliant life. The dull yellow hay
was transformed into a glowing. red
gold curtain. back Of which the noun
tains doomed mistily against a cri,.-
son sky. a pillar of smoke from fires
near Nine Mile. which had stood all
! day like solid gray support of tn.
heavens. was shot through by light
| until 1t lost its immobility and BEGAN.
sh'ftlng, menacing column of rec
| t,re ana dense blackness, Lower INK
IN" sun, turning dust to fine gold ant
smoke to flames, which grew briyhte,
rs the rest OF the world became blacl
nntil at last they alone glowed like 2
snlien reflection of great fires bcyont
| the hills
Despite the drouth. crops in the Ri,
ter Root valley will be good this fan
according to Charles l. Cowell. VIII,
returned Yesterday from n long motto
'fIp to the head of the valley,
| me thing that struck me mos
iorclplH, said Mr.. Coweli. was tn.
| iac' that every farm house has i,
truck garden. Potatoes. Say. ever,
"rchardist and farmer In the vale,
mas planted spuds this year, and the,
| AT look prosperous. Evidently In,
people up there are planning to do 3
Tot OF canning this year. too. At a,
rate the Bitter Root surely has dor
us BIT in utilizing all available lane
for foodstuffs."