Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1948-07-09
North Forkers Enjoy Fourth Western Way

There were more than enoug]
trout caught to feed 100 peopl
as North Forkers gathered for
Fourth of July fish fry, business
meeting and dance that lasted un
til dawn.
Residents of the recreationa
and ranching area just west OF
Glacier national park gathered a,
the McFarland's Quarter Circle
NC ranch. While the men were
catching the last of the needed
fish in the clear flowing Flathead
rivers north fork, the women were
cleaning and frying in the McFar
land kitchen.
Then followed a fire drill by
the men using the new Glacier ma
tional park fire truck brought by
Rangers Hugh Buchanan, Paul
Berger, Ed Olmstead from near
by Polebridge station. The crowd
watched the truck pump from the
river, and shoot hose streams into
the air. Background were the YVES
tern peaks of the park, and there
was Wrangler Ernie Smith dodg-
ing the young Mcfarland stallion,
Monty in the mist.
Next followed dinner, buffet
style, and served on the river bank
There was more than enough from
river to frying pan trout, and
product of the various North
Fork kitchens were the cakes, COO
kies, sandwiches, potato salad and I
all the picnic trimmings.
With the start of the evening,
he crowd of about 100 went to
quarter Circles big lodge room
where District Ranger John Cas-
les and Dispatcher John Stem
# Flathead national forest show
ID color films on how to put a
crest fire out and the Acadia ma
ional park fire of last summer. A
hort color reel taken by DR.. Nc
'arland last winter was then pro-
ected. It showed the McFarland's
ouse cat "buffaloing" a red fox
way from table scraps.
The crowd joined in to buy
lift for the North Fork Improve
tents association president, Walt
TANNER who was married to Ha-
Il Monson, Phoenix, Ariz., June
}, Myrel Greenshields presided 6
the meeting in Waits absence. ;
here'n be an old-fashioned char
ari for Walt and Hazel.
Then followed the dance with
lbert Lewis calling the circle r
70 steps, Virginia reels, broom r
lnce, and there were Rye walt
IS and they even tried the "Var- Z
vian." =
Mrs. Hubert Hunt did a noble
b at the piano with angry" :
'uffalo Gals" you Wore a Tu- =,
J." and RED River Valley" Mr.. D
INT was right there with the vi
n, as was Dave Benson, Kintla ",
nch packer, playing the guitar. ,e
lie two little Bensons were Sleep -,
2 in the car. !"
Harry HOlcomb danced with his .,
anddaughter, Mrs. Jack Mati1- ~
n. His great grandson, Johnny,
'ee-months-old was sleeping in on
} room with the wraps where al NJ
were Patty 10 Steiner, $ /,
nths, and Mata Hudson, 2.
lnny's other great grandpar- fo,
S, the w. H. Mathisons from ~.
,at Falls were also there, and
has another set of great grand on
ents, the Chaomans of Column ho,
Falls.
[olding up with the best of IN,
N in the schottische was spry 60,
tty Beaton, somewhere around a.,
he circle two step, 1913 North III
k version is a mixture of the RI
ga line and Indian warwhoops. oct
INCEST dancers and they never :
ed were David Mcfarland and 10,
Hensem, both 8. David de- f,,r
ped an evenings crush on one ,
ng miss in her twenties. off
leeping quietly through it all urn
Gary Haverlandt, 2, on the u,b
of his grandfather's neighbor, :
KY, Harold Walling. ;s 9
course the light plant stopped ber
= in while SO dancing contin- \
by flashlight until doc" got Do,
gave the motor a twist, and Mo
tt putt" there were lights again