Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-01-04

The Firemsn's Carnival held Fri
day and Saturday nights in the X. p
hall was q pronounced success. Ii
point of attendance it probably ex
ceeded that of two years ago and ii
nAncially it was equal to anything
that had been given in the city.
The receipts for the two evening,
was close to $1,000. OF course, ths
expenditures for an affair of thi,
kind are heavy and it will be impos
sibie for a few days before all the
bills are in to estimate the profit.
This much we know and that is that
the firemen can be trusted with the
peoples money. Most fire depart.
merits when they get a few dollars
dress themselves up like a Zousve
band. with uniforms, badges and 9TH
er useless regalia, but our fire de-
partment, we say it with pride, has
salted down their coin in tangible
wealth for the city.
We have an adequate equipment
thanks to them, for without their ef-
forts the Lord knows how we should
ever have obtained it.
The crowd was large on the first
night of the carnival but the machin-
cry for separating the people from
their money did not get to going on
high until the second evening, as evil
dence we offer the fact that the re-
ceipts of the first evening were only
$3.50, but on the second evening there
was crowd, add to that two more
crowds and you have about the at
tendance.
Talk about "ships that pass in the
night and speak each other in pass
ing, only a signal shown, only voice
in the darkness" if you passed any
one Saturday night you first bumped
into him, then you conveyed to him
the intelligence that you wished to
pass Then you clasped him or her
in your arms, then exercised sort
of sidewise glide in the opposite di-
rection from your partner. Halfway
by judicious and energetic use of your
elbows, you got your arms loose
bought paddle, caught your breath
while the wheel spun and then if you
won a pound OF chocolates you held
the corner of the box firmly gouged
into your partners neck while you
sidestepped another half-circle and
you were past 1t took exactly %
minutes to carry your checks from the
cashiers desk to the roulette table
and for the round trip exactly 45 min
utes. You can figure how long the
chips lasted.
In the ball room you found merry
throng. On few faces there was a
look of pain through which there was
glimmering smile like the sun on a
cloudy day, but in a few hours the
clouds all cleared away and everyone
was smiling. We can explain this.
On the dance floor there were two
couples to each square foot of floor
space. When first their toes were
stepped on it caused pain but after a
while the pain was trampled into un-
consciousness and after that every
body smiled.
The dancing was new kind of
sport like trying to cross the creek
by jumping from one stone to an
other, only here you jumped from one
persons foot to another and il you
missed your foot was at the bottom
until someone missed and you started
over.
Or you could liken it to battle
royal Nothing barred. Biting, kick
ing. gouging were mere pastimes. The
only couple who had clear floor was
the one where the lady had an 49,
inch hat pin stuck through her hat,
the point extending foot on her left
side. This hat pin was pointed at
your eye wherever you stood and
when. dancers saw her coming they
piled up along the sides or in the cor
ners and left her clear swath- We
overheard her say sweetly Someone
void me that it WAS crowded UP here"
The music was furnished by the
Jsz1-Ar-M Monte orchestra who did
wonders in getting the crowd TO jump
10 time.
What good time they hadl We
have yet to hear person who failed I
"a. enjoy himself.
For the prize waltz they cleared a
space six feet by eight. About 20