The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-03
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The first two weeks of August
saw Montana's receipts from the
gasoline tax boosted to a peak
record for any fourteen-day period,
GIG 900 pictures of the liberty lady
being turned in at one dollar per.
That indicates that Montana high
ways are quite saleable commodi-
ties. And the gasoline tax keeps
the supply pretty well up to the
demand.
And that seems to be a pretty
load of. Montana grasshoppers
were billed out for California, in
which state they will help the big
fish get away from anglers.
1t was a wise idea to give
America freedom of thought, and
speech. and press. No other people
on earth could come nearer MAX
ing use of such privilege up to
the hundred per cent mark.
The William Desmond Tayler
murder keeps up its periodical
bobbing up in California. This
last time it bobbed in the form of
a denial of authorship of the
film-land mystery. There are
more than a hundred twenty-Six
millions of us who could take that
much of a part in it.
There was no misplaced SYM
pathy in that California jury
room wherein the evidence was
deemed sufficient to warrant the
-~o,y.@~ ~ 4IrNo %;,,,o
slayer of little girls. Flowers plac-
ed at the resting place of dumb
animals might be Understandable
if the circumstances all were
known: but recommendations of
mercy for fiends found out-not
quite.
Moths live only a few days. it
is learned. There's a place neEt
door TO this print shop where
they don't live that long.
One million Chinese are said TO
be afflicted with leprosy-the old
est disease known to man Just
now there are many more than
that afflicted by attacks of japitis.
That was an impudent sort Of
fire-the n reported to have
cremated the fire extinguishers
stored in a building.
There was once the question of
an open door in China. 1t was
then a moot question, c%ontrover-
Sial, disturbing, some times alarm
was the back door. Also, that if
the Chinks don't use it soon, both
the question and the door will be
closed.
Franco attacks Santander from
five directions" said a headline.
Maybe so the rebel general is the
Spanish star of destiny, after all.
An American lady is hurrying
back to Shanghai to resume her
vocation as manager of a hotel in
that city. She was reported as say
ing that where war is prevalent
one becomes immune to its ter
rorS. Hotel keepers may be that
way.
It was not the Light of ASIA"
nor was it THE Light That Fail
ed" One of those came from the
late General Lew Wallace-the
other was from Rudyard Kipling.
This light is owned by Simoleon
J. Marquisee. It is not literary; it
is literal; it is of 1~O00-candle
power. and when Syme forgets to
turn it off before going to sleep,
he wakes up next morning think
ing he's the meal ticket of the
Montana Power Co. /
The governor of Colorado went
out to a rodeo, recently, and sue
ceeded in roping a calf in five
throws. He did not win a prize,
but did get five dollars on a bet.
If a Big Horn county COW poke
took that many throws to catch a
calf, he would also catch-well,
you imagine it. I
Perhaps the cycle is swinging
back again toward the wild diver
sions Of the gay nineties." Ex-
hibit "A" consists of a set of ro-
quet balls and malletS exposed for
sale. And they were just as gaily
striped as were their grandpa
rents. The sport. at least, was nc
more deadly than is golf. /
In Hardin, as elsewhere, some
footprints have been left in the
sands of time. And that's why one
entrance to the Tribune-Herald
office bears the legend, Lunch
room."
Deferred His Golden Jubilee :
You who read this column may
have sometime met the senior
editor of the Tribune-Herald. 7
think you surely have. He came
to the old Hardin Tribune twenty