The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-20
SWEET THOUGHT-s'BABY"

Baby in the cauldrOn fell.
See the grey on mothers brow.
Mother loved her darling we'll,
Baby's quite hard-boiled by now.
l.. G. Storm spent several days in
Roman this week from Missoula.
The object of his visit was to col
lect data for the new county di-
rectory.
The vote at the special election
last Monday on water bonds and
electricity demonstrates that Roman
is unit where the interests of the
town and public welfare are issues.
P. A. Flatten, who was formerly
in the employ of the A. NJ. Sterling
Co. at Roman. has resigned his po-
sition at Victor and is now with the
M. NJ. Co. branch store at Camas
Hot Springs. Mrs. Flatten is visit
ing her parents near Spokane but
will join him shortly
The partition between the lobby
and the stairway entrance of the
Sterling hotel has been taken out
during the past week, making the
entire front of the hotel one large
room. This Improvement gives it
more spacious appearance and rem
ders it considerable cooler these hot
days.
Tom Miller, driver of one of the
Williams auto stages, had stock
and offered anyone a five spot if
they would ride it from here to Pol
son without pulling leather Needless
to say, no one offered to take the bet,
as they all know the road is too
rough and dusty to even try it.
A head on collision between a
Chevrolet car from Poison and an
other Chevrolet car driven by Riley
of Roman took place near the Catho-
lie church in Roman Monday. The car
driven by Riley was stripped of
front wheel and running board and
the Poison car was badly scratched
up.
The meeting of the Patriotic
League on Wednesday was we'll at
tended, sixteen ladies being present.
Mrs. Henry Cannon and Mrs. Almon
Hooker of the Leon association of
Leon, met with the Roman league
to get instruction in the work. They
have recently organized a branch
of the Patriotic League at Leon and
have a membership of ten.
Carper & Kane are now engaged
in the construction of a five room
bungalow for A. E. Piedalue on his
farm adjoining the townsite on the
east, and as soon as same is COM
pleted will begin work on a two story
barn 3OX40, garage and other farm
| buildings. Mr.. Piedalue will have
one of the choice farms in the val
! | Y.
Men and boys going in swimming
in Spring creek and elseW here, are
asked to be more careful how they
throw away their lighted cigarette
stubs and matches, as just the other
day the house owned by Mrs. Stilman,
now occupied by Ross Holloway,
came very near going up in smoke
and but for the prompt action of
Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs. Wright
it would have been a loss. They
carried water and put the fire out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank O. Worden are
in receipt of letter from their son,
Frank L. Worden, postmarked Paris,
France, stating that the steamer
Seattle" on which he is an ensign,
had crossed the water a short time
before and had anchored at one of
the nearby ports. He was given his
liberty for three days and made the
trip to Paris and had visited the
hospitals, etc, although many
places of interest were closed. Ow-
ing to the many restrictions, he was
not able to give much information as
to the voyage or plans, but it is pre-
sumed that he will remain in the war
zone in active service. His parents
had not heard from him for some
time and while they are glad to
know of his whereabouts, are nat
urally more or less concerned over
his future welfare. 1t will be re-
membered that young Mr.. Worden Wis
tied in Roman last summer. He was
graduated from Annapolis early this
spring.