The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-11-01
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A number of air-minded folks
around here believe that the Glas-
cow airbase will be opened to public
use lust as soon as wal prisoners are
moved after the beet harvest. But
it is going TO take a little work 10
make sure about it.
From Sacramento, Calf, Or. ID.
Peterson, former city clerk, writes a
note saying that he is just beginning
to find time to look the derned
place over. Pete has been so busy
during the war rush that he has
hardly had time to get acquainted
with the land of the Native Son and
foggy nights. Sends regards to all his
friends. Son Russell is still in the
army and their daughter, Betty Gail,
is with the P%etersons.
Have you mailed that check
to the Valley County Wa
Chest? Your money goes to the
USO and SO related war agen-
cies, with a bit of il retained
for home veteran benefits.
We do not condone the wholesale
thefts from cars by three Glasgow
youths, revealed last week by the
police. We condemn even more
strongly adults who buy stolen goods
from bows at such ridiculouSly low
prices that there is little question
but that the property is hot" This
is encouraging juvenile delinquency.
Which brings us to the belief that
a good many cases of juvenile
trouble usually have some older per-
son mixed 10 with them. There is
an underworld name for buyers of
stolen property and it is not a very
pretty one.
BY devious channels and without
Identification of the principles, word
has come to Chief of Police Bonnie
Sather that the recent poison
chicken" theft almost resulted in
tragedy. In fact, the officers in
formant said. a local family had
the strychnine-filled bird in the fry
ing pan when it got word Of the
danger by way of a chool n
nouncement.
The deadly chicken" story got on
the radio networks, while Ed Davi-
son received a copy Of the Wash
ington, D. C. Herald, where it was
front-paged.
Speaking of chickens, but legiti-
mate ones, Old-timer Hugh Calder
wood SAYS ne visited at Fred Nc
Cune's place south of OSwego and
he was fed drumsticks and white
meat twice a day for five days.
Now I'm back on K-rationS," re-
ports Hugh. in a wistful one.
Editor George Hoole of the Daw-
son County Review pays u Scot
ties a nice compliment in a report OF
the Glasgow-G lendive football con-
test: The game was the hardest
fought and closest that Dawson has $
PLAYED this year. 1t was a defensive {
hattie throughout, with two power {
full lines bottling up the ball car {
rieTs." !
Postwar planning" is really a ;
dead phrase. It's postwar now y
and time to put plans INTO s
execution. To our east Wolf q
Point is soon to advertise for q
bids for street improvements. on ?
O0I HtSL Nt1hAtit q
considerable such work this p
summer even before VI day. 1t
seems to us it's. a good time to u
begin getting action for some S
much needed city work here. F
N--issourians. who have a world I
wide reputation for storytelling, up {
held it here last week when s
LEGISLATORS and state officials from v
the SHOW Me" state were guests o
of the Glasgow Chamber of Com f
at dinner. S
Sen. Edward V. Long OF Bowling 81
Mo. admitted to being from o
a bjll-billy area where sorghum beer
is a staple home product. Equipped 4
a gallon of this potent brew, ne Z
related. a squirrel hunter sailed :
forth to the hills one day. He found 4
no SQUIRRELS but he %patrCnized the y
contents literally. Finally, y
seated precariouSly on a stump, he q
glanced down and saw a RATHER Z
and ready. Taking another D
swic the Missourian shouted,
strike. dern va, strike, you'll never -.
find me better prepared" sc
Nationwide publicity recently was h,
,iven a Maine farmer and wife who ",
started cut in a boxcar with their tc
household possessions to settle In c
california. This should bring re
miles to many Montanans' faces. 1t b;
vas not so many years ago, in the
homestead era, that hundreds ar al
lived here on Jim Hills tracks by dC
car" This was a freight al
ar usually filled with Ma, Pa, the ir
ids the COW. a couple of bureaus, az
/, commode and a bale of hay. A lot
folks didn't reach the Treasure di
tate by Pullman. H
With all the reports about swim ST
rattlesnakes in Fort Peck lake, fr
md arguments. too, we dispatched a P.
etter to the Chicago Natural HIS w
ory (Field) museum to get some IN Ii
.ormation. Director Clifford {. an
of the museum replies that h
II is reasonable to suppose that one az
II more alternating dens OF n A
.attlesnakes were flooded by the
and that the local snake popu- 50
atoms are On the move to find new dt
lens. Rattlesnakes. like all snakes,
vim well when the occasion re- G
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Publisher Hal Stearns OF the y
Iarlowton Times. reporting a sue -
essful central Montana north-south y
Dad booster meeting, declares -
There is now no bridge between
Tort Benton and Wolf Point on the
dissouri." Wed just like to point
Iut that We have some Sl20, 1000 900
worth CT bridge at Fort Peck and we
it is also IN important part
4 a north-south route this section
recently wants. Hal is certainly
ight in stressing the crying need for