The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-11
Hes getting

to be In demand"
Jim seemed to be in demand-a fact
that Jennie confirmed by observation
He received a dozen invitations as he
passed the groups seated on the grass
One of them from Mrs. Cornelius
Bonner, who saw no particular point
in advertising disgruntlement. The
children ran to him and chung to his
hands; young girls gave him s~isterly
smiles and such trifes as chicken
drumsticks, pieces of cake and like It'd
bits. His passage to the numerous
group at a square table under a big
burr oak WAS quite an ovatiOn-an
ovation of the significance of which he
was himself quite W
But J~ennie-the daughter of a poll
tician and q promising one herself
Jennie sensed the fact that Jim Irwin
had won something from the people OF
the Woodruff district in the way or
Difference. Still he was the gangling,
Ancolnian, addressed, over-stricken
Jim Irwin OF old, but Jennie had no
longer the feeling that ones standing
was somewhat compromised by asso-
citation with him.
He had begun to put on something
more significant than clothes, some
thing which he had possessed all the
1t was publicly apprehended BE was
clearly the central figure Of his group,
In which she recognized the Bronsons
those queer children from Tennessee,
the Simmsee, the Talcotts, the Han.
sens, the Hamms and Colonel Wood
rufus hired man, Pete, whose other
name Is not recorded.
Jim sat down between Bettina Han
sen. a 1axen-haired young Brunhilde
Of seventeen, and Calista Simms-
Jennie saw him do it, while listening TO
Wilbur Smythe's account Of the Elk
acting nature Of the big law practice
he was building up-and would have
been glad to exchange places with
Bettina.
The repast drew to a close and over
by the burr oak the crowd had grown
to a circle surrounding Jim Irwin
he seems to be making an ad-
Dress" said Wilbur Smythe.
"Well, Wilbur" replied the colonel,
you had the first shot at us, Suppose
we move over and see what's Under
discussion"
AS they approached the group, they
heard Jim Irwin answering something
which Ezra Bronson had said.
"You think so, Ezra" said he, land
It seems reasonable that big cream
cries like those at Omaha, Sioux City,
Des Moines and the other centralizeI
points can make butter cheaper thar
we would do here-but we've the fig
ures that show that they aren't eco
nomical."
"They can't make good butter, for
one thing" said Newton Bronson cock
lily,
"Why can't theya" asked Olaf Han.
sen, the father of Bettlna.
"Well," said Newton, they have tt
have SO much cream that they've got
to ship 1t so far that 1t gets rotten or
the way, and they have to renovate II
with lime and other Ingredients be
fore they can churn It,"
well" said Raymond simms, ~
reckon, they sell their butter 70 all It's
wuth an they CANT get within from
foah to seven cents a pound as much
TO 1t as the farmers creamertes iI
Wisconsin and Minnesota get TO
theirs"
'That's a fact. Olaf" said Jim.
How 90 you Klds Know so uarneo
much about It'll" quered Pete.
Huh !" shifted Bettina. We've
been reading about it, and writing let
.ers about it, and figuring percentages
On 1t in school all winter. We've done
arithmetic and geography and gram
mai and l don't know what else on It,"
well, Pm agin' any schoolin'," said
Pete, that makes kids smarter in
than their parents and their
parents hired men. Gil IN another
,wig O. that lemonade, JimF
"You see" said Jim to his audience,
creamery Is unecoDomic in
several ways. 1t has to pay excessive
transportation charges. 1t has to pay
excessive commissions to It's cream
1t has to accept cream with
,ut proper inspection, and mixes the
rood with the bad. 1t makes such long
lhipments hat the cream spoils In
ransit and lowers the quality OF the
,utter. 1t can't make the best use OF
buttermilk. All these losses and
eaks the farmers have to stand. j
prove-and so can the six or
light pupils in the Woodruff school
.ho have been working on the cream
Iuestion this winter-that we could
make at least six cents q pound on
ur butter If we had a cooperative
reamery and all sent our cream to It."
Well said Ezra Bronson, Tets
tart q
"I1l go in,' said Olaf Hansen.
Me. too," said Con Bonner.
There WA 4 general chorus az a.
Jim bad convinced his audience.