The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-02
SHELBY WILL BE WISE TOWN WHEN
 EXODUS IS OVER
Far-0ff Town Rubs Elbows With New York and East
 Meets West
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 SHELBY, Mont, July 1.-When the swelling goes down. when the growth cf shanties has flaked off the dis tended hide of this audauious little 5000 town in northern Montana, there will be, after all, more cause for hal lelujahs than howls even though far travelled crowds should fail to fill the huge pine platter which sprawls on the flat just outside the limits.
 Shelby will have seen all there Is to see except the subways, tall buildings and Venice, and even fair imitation of the latter in the broad rain -puddles whose disappearance detracted noth- ing from the sightliness of Shelby or the joy of the inmates.
 Shelby will speak varied lingo, embracing all the pungnent batter of the movie lot, the New York speak easy, the crap table, the tent show and the fight business, which latter IS delivered from the side of the mouth, curious downward twist of the lip.
 Shelby even will have heard a met ropolitan newsboy, outbarking the coyotes in the wide-open spaces be- tween suburban shacks, where men are likely to be silly asses at night and the beer is nearer than the law approves.
 Shelby will have seen Indians be- dight in war paint, elks teeth, feath- CTS and horn-rimmed spectacles and will have observed that most of these primitive people have become ad dicted to gum-chewing through ex posture to education at Carlisle and HaEkell.
 Shelby to See All.
 Shelby will have stood at the curb on Main street and gaped at the stage coach of the rodeo exhibition in the grand free parade, spectacle that the dudes from New York and Cali fornia noted with no great inter- est-having seen it at least cnce year since infancy at the circus. Shel- by will have seen the wild west and q prize fight in the Jersey style of Tex Rickard attended by an inpour- ing of people from both coasts and New Orleans and will forevermore refer to a thousand dollars as a grand" a failrue as a bust" a jail term as a rap" a success as nat ural' and to sums of money by the New York terms such as "a finn" "a pound" yard" or "a yard and a quarter"
 The Shelby Promoter, a new daily paper, was unable to make itself heard for all it's lusty editorial policy, until Jack Lloyd, modestly owning VI with a bundle of five-star- sporting finals, shouting the news in a voice that appealed the populace. He hau no change and the smallest coin in a mans hand was the price of the Shelby Promoter, there being no pen nies and few nickels out here. There may be few financial bruis- es and Mayor Jim Johnson probably will show the sorest welts when the midsummer ructions of the prairie have finished. But the harder they nit Jim Johnson, the harder he bounces back, and the touring cars, shapeless with mud and baggage, now wobblfng Into town are fairer omenS of greater receipts than Shelby had any reason to hope for few days ago.
 Floating Talent Busy.
 One trouble was the haste of the floating talent to start taking the tourists. They spilled off their trains as early as June 30, soaked the romey and gooey patches of town property, set up their board and canvas ickelsnatcheries and then had to eat their heads off while they waited for the fight crowds to come. This day began the exodus from the dozen or more hotels which had given fair notice weeks ago that from July l to would be the time for hopping up. The prices had plenty of back bone as 1t was, but a new, a stiffer scale of rents began Sunday and the landlord had the right to place null tum In unum as privacy is abolished In the Sullivan house three guests to reach their room had to tip toe through another in which a man and woman were asleep.
 Eleven policemen and sheriffs and floating force of prohibition agents, which was increased Sunday, will be prowling through the crowds until July 5, and the jail has been en- larged to hold 800.
 J. S. Alsup. the marshal of Shelby, is apparent with his gun in a holster. Bill McKinnon is in from Havre, Montana.
 Chester Edwards detective chief of Spokane, is on his way.
 Frog Sims is somewhere about. .
 Bands play, Airplanes thunder down the skies. A hospital has been rigged for emergency cases.
 Yet Shelby is peaceful and, with only one stickup reported in the last 10 days, might be considered a haven of safety by anyone accustomed to the every day risks where gunmen operate in the dark streets of the big