The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-03-16
Kirby Kernels

Kirby Kernels
Robert Rugg, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Rugg, is taking a
special course in Sniper training
as he has made an excellent
record in sharp shooting. Robert
Is a Marine training in Califor.
MIA. Joseph Rugg, his older
brother, also excelled in marks.
manShip and mans a special
gundown in the Pacific with the
Marines.
Mr.. and Mrs. William v. John
son returned home on WedneS-
day, leaving Winthrop Sargent
Jr. in town to visit his mother
awhile. Most of the Rosebudders
returned home from the bull
sale by Tuesday and WedneS-
day with their purchases. Dick
HoSford was the purchaser OF
one of the best bulls sold at the
sale, one of the Robert ]. Mil
Ter herd, at $1,025.0 0 Royal De-
gree 10th by name. Kirby Bo-
caldo 18th was purchased by
Torrey B. Johnson, and Kirby
Bocaldo 14th was the choice of
Paddy Ryan. These two bulls
were from the herd of Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt Jordan, who sold five
bulls at the sale, and gave a
heifer, Kirby Miss Tone, which
was sold for $325.00 to Ned Cox
of Birney, for the benefit of the
Red Cross of Sheridan. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dom Davies bought Kath-
crime 57th, a Yentzer heifer, for
$4,000 for the Red Cross fund.
w. B. Spear, Jr., bought two
bulls, Anxiety Domino, of Tony
Kumor, for $4,000 and B. R. c.
Double Adv. Domino 18th, Bear
Claw ranch, for $55O.00. Buck
Ewing bought two bulls, Canyon
True Image 37th, Canyon ranch,
for $3.50, and Bar 10 Puritan 18th
for $465, a Bar 10 ranch offering.
Mr. and Mrs. Dom Davies and
daughters returned home on
Thursday from Sheridan. Maria
and Anne were delighted to be
home again after spending a
week in nursery school.
The Lee AdSits are moving into
the old Bill Smith cabin on the
Jones ranch and Lee will do
some farming for Mr.. Jones this
year, and will be able to take a
few hundred acres more to
farm near by.
Bud Anderson rode horseback
to Decker Friday to the Squirrel
Creek ranch of the Matt Jor-
dams, to gather his cattle win
terlng there, and bring them
home.
Johnny Young gave a dance
Saturday night at the Log
school house.
Anyone having a live prairie
dog town on their ranch and
having difficulty in destroying
them, contact Mrs. Willis B.
Spear Jr., and learn how she
and her house guest, Mrs. Ste
van Smith, poisoned a town on
the Spear o ranch, and on rid
ing out two days later to learn
the results, saw an eagle rise
lazily from the town with a
prairie dog in his talons, while
his mate sat on the limb of a
tall pine eating another one;
Dismounting. they found evil
dence at nearly evrey mound
that the occupants had met
death. Magpies, hawks, skunks,
and coyotes had been having a
feast, leaving only a leg, a bit
OF skin, and some were caSed,
with a bit of head left. The
carnage was great anyway, with
no live prairie dogs in evidence.
All the creeks and draws that
empty into the Rosebud were
alive on Thursday with water,
in a mad rush to go somewhere.
Our spring-like weather makes
one wonder, "how long to green
grass?"
A few spring calves are show
ing their little white faces here
and there.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Spear Jr.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Torrey B.
Johnson and children spent
Sunday with the William v.
JOhnSonS.
Mrs. Gregg Penson and baby
daughter Gwendolyn left on
Tuesday for Kansas to visit Mr.
and Mrs. Wild for two months,
and give them a chance to get
acquainted with their grand
daughter.
The Rosebud Mountain Al
Club will have a picnic dinner
at the Log school house on Sun
day, March 20. The community
is invited to come and bring
their dinner. Lunch will be at
l p. m.
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