Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1948-08-20

Order of events, Martin Cit.
August -.
We thought, when our twisting
agonizing joints drove us out &c
$50 morning stroll and we say
two ill-omened buzzards clrclin
low DER our sleeping village, tina
come mischief would stalk on
streets.
Nor were we mistaken; for a
$50 & playful youth tossed smith
frs, mangey, black tomcat int
the spring, which caused a rippl
If loud curses among the water
nsers At $50 Mrs. Mae Burlano
while hanging out a wash, turne'
an ankle and fell in a huddle.
Then the tempo of fate's prog
ram increased: Little girl at play
sewers artery; small boy at play
cuts lip. Two hurried trips tf
Whitefish.
The Dooley and Kelly kids or
Sublimity ridge tin-caned Tim "
Connor's egg sucking cur, which
ran down the hi-way creating a
rattling din which drowned out
the soothing strains emanating
from Kathleen's piano.
Man, resisting officer, shot; the
old. the young, the fat, the lean
hurrying to the tragic scene! ST.
rens blowing!
Carol Ann loses shoes on Carol
Ann avenue. Ladies assembling at
Meadows for aid meeting; Con-
MES dog catches one of Mrs.
Meadows spring fryers and dash
es away with it. Yelling Greene
Heights boys give chase and eff
feet rescue of a chicken leg, a
wing, and handful of feathers.
Milk cow, startled by commotion
kicks old man off stool in the
fracas.
And all the while, the juke box
1t the Hub prophetically ground
out that Spanish-American war
1itty :"Hell broke loose in our
good old, good old town."
Otis j. Sherman, Cnarlo, was a
,isitor in Martin City Friday.
Vernita Burland, Kalispell, call
ID on her brother, Gilbert Burland
Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hedgepeth
nd daughter. Vivian, who have
cen visiting kin folk in Lewis
own, Mont, are spending a few
avs with their daughter, Mrs.
-rthur Barber, before returning {
ONE to Portland. t
Mrs. Sam Barber is receiving t
'eatment at Holy Family hospital
t. Ignatius. 6
Mr.. and Mrs. Art Olson, Sc c
tile, who have been touring the 1
lst, were recent guests of John il
GARD. s
Mrs. Beth Schuster was recently
sited by her brother, Tom Nc \
fee and wife, Redland Calf. This
rs the first time in % years that
'th had seen her brother. F.
1t is good to have Gus Redeker n
OK with us once more. Gus has o.
snt the past two months visit al
!. kinfolks and friends in Iowa, IL
w York, and New England. RE CO
pleased to be back, too, and tt
rs if he had to live there he tt
uld not trade one lot in Mar S
City for the entire state of sc
ssachusetts. nj
Me Martin Millers are home af-
several weeks in Kanistota. S. ne
k, and Milwaukee. an
late, but still news, is the an -
Incement of a baby boy, named -
ljamin Frank, at the V. Rosand- Y
home, Whitefish. The Rosand- Y
e formerly of Martin City. Y
'arl places the hi-way flares r
ing a fog. n
We had been re-reading some of n
.rles Dickens descriptions of n
don characters, including that n
the lovable old street-lighter n
n one paining bones took us II
IN evening walk to the village. n
S we stumbled along the Main d
ct, a heavy night fog obscured q
but the faint outline of build u
and of the darker human sha- Il
darting here and there. The u
ma of stale beer permeated the u
osphere. There was babbIe U
oirate-like cursing as schoon- y
aden persons collided in the Y
mess. The door to a tavern Y
thrown open, emitting a glow y
ed light, and also the fiendiest Y
eks of an over-worked luke Y
(And, we thought of Dante's Y
sic rawlings about 'wailing Y
in the Inferno.") Y
len in a straight line ahead Z
IS a light flickered and flared -