The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-09-07


Lake was in the city Saturday on
court matters.
Miss Gladys Memminger left Mon
day for Minneapolis to resume her
studies in music and dramatic art.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Hollenbeck of
Ness City, Kansas, were in the city
the fore part of the week visiting
their son, ]. E. Hollenbeck.
The members of the Mothers club
are making a canvass of the city to
secure clothing for the poor and
needy. Anyone who has any old
clothing should notify Mrs. A.. N.
Peterson, who has charge of the work.
Hunting season opens Sept. Is. Ev-
cry necessity may be found at our
store. See the windows. Lewis-We-
dunn Co. 10
Posters regarding the cutting of
weeds on lots and boulevards were put
up this week. Wherever a notice ap-
pears, the weeds must be cut, or the
cost of having same done by the city
will be charged against the property.
According to a report compiled by
state officials there were S,046 mar
riages in Montana last year and 1,4S2
divorces-the ratio being about n
divorce to every five weddings. In
Chouteau county there were SO mar
riages and ten divorces, the cases of
domestic infelicity in this county being
less than the average.
First Sergeant William Belzer of
the Machine Gun company of the Sec
ond Montana, came down Saturday to
visit relatives and friends. He left
Sunday night to rejoin the regiment.
Sunday evening a farewell reception
was held in his honor at the Clarence
Hall home and a large party of friends
gathered to bid him goodbye.
Sidney j. Rumble of the Rumble
Land & Abstract Co., Glasgow, is Wis
iting Helena on business. He asserts
that crops in Valley county will be
much better than has been anticipat-
ed. Summer fallowed land will aver
age as high as 10 bushels of wheat
to the acre and other land will have
an average of nearly five bushels.
Wherever irrigation was used the
crops are reported in fine condition;
alfalfa especially doing well.-Helena
Independent.
A. F. Simpson Of Glentana, scien-
, tific horse breeder and poet and philo-
5 sopher, was s%ojourning in the city the
fore part of the week. While here
he handed US a copy of his poem,
2 "The DEVILS Resignation" which is
published in this issue. Mr.. Simpson
states that he is a candidate for mat
rimony and it will take only one vote
. to elect him, but as yet no fair damsel
E has become a victim of his charms,
While the Courier is no matrimonial
! bureau, we wish Mr.. Simpson all the
r luck in the world in his search for a
mate.
Hunting season opens Sept. Is. Ev.
cry necessity may be found at ouI
> store. See the windows. Lewis-We'
;, dunn Co. Is
' Wesley Whitnell, a former Glas'
gov boy, was injured in a motor
cycle accident last week. The report
of the accident which appeared in one
!, of the Fargo papers, follows: "Wesley
y Whitnell, Fargo, was seriously in
u jured on the face and head last night
when he was thrown from his motor
cycle when a Ford car collided with
his machine on the south bridge. Mis-:
II Emma Clayton, who was riding on thu
: sidecar of the motorcycle, vas alst
e thrown out, but escaped without in
juries. The Ford, which vas driver
by Walter Huseth of Fargo, wa
g travelling east, in the same direction
F." - as the motorcycle, when the crasl
came. In order to avoid a more Sc
rious crash Huseth steered his ca,
into the railing of the bridge, great,
!, damaging the machine. The Moor
head police Investigated the affair
but no arrests resulted as neither O
the drivers seemed to blame the othe
for the accident"
= A couple of country cousins on
visit to Glasgow, halted in front of
y brass plate fixed on the front Of
y house, wherein was inscribed in boil
characters the word, "Chiropodist."
- "Chiropodist!" remarked one O
:" them, perplexedly, "What's that?"
"Why," replied his companion, i"
le chiropodist is a chap that teache
"a a canary to whistle"
Henceforth kings and kaisers wi
hesitate a long time before they star
:" anything in the bloodletting line.
49, "Kultur" has lost more prestige i
g this barbarous war than it will b
able to retrieve in a month of Sur
days.
Meanwhile, no quaking pacifist
more anxious to see the war en-