The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-08-19
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Big Horn county has a young
athlete who has had no recog-
milton locally, and about whom
wen wager not too many people
in this immediate vicinity know
about. He is Jack IWakiri of st.
Xavier, who has been doing a
very nice job of pitching for
the American Legion Junior
baseball team in Billings. Jack
has been moving them down
with Strike-outS right and left
in Junior Legion competition,
and we think it's about time
his home county recognized his
proweSS. II,
The HTH has a heck of a
time on this athletic PROPOSE
ton. Although our erStWhile
steller athlete, Dooley, didn't do
too well at Sbftball, we figured
he might improve and we could
share the glory of a homer or
two. Dooley got a twisted knee,
which put him out of COMPETE
ton. Then Jimmy got going,
and pitched the game Sunday
for the Hardin All-Stars. He
had a nice lead, too, up to the
sixth inning. Then came the de-
LUCE. (And we don't mean rain.)
At present writing no one else
in the joint seems to have any
athletic specially. We used to
WELD a mean ping-pong paddle
ourselves. Why doesn't somebody
have a table-tenniS tournament?
We're going to take up veter-
mary medicine one of these
days. We wind up not with one
dog, but with two. (The second
one adopted us-and an appeal
ing little rascal he is, too.) Not
only do we have two dogs
around our very small house,
last week it turned out to be
two sick dogs. Both are on the
road to recovery, though we
have our fingers crossed, but 1T
was quite an effort. Having
owned numerous pooehes be-
fore, we thought we were fair
if rather amateurish, in this
matter of giving medicine. But
we talked too soon. Our spouse
got a free booklet and put us
completely to shame in showing
down pills after a brief perusal
of said pamphlet.
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Tain't fair. A couple of weeks
ago, Kelley, the industrious gro
Ger, and We ed were sympathiz-
ing with each other. Neither OF
us had a vacation this summer,
and we figured it was pretty
tough life. We also agreed that
we were beginning to hate peo-
pie who had vacations. Well,
we dropped into the store this
week, and by golly, we found
out Kelly had double crossed
us. He had taken a few days
off, and is on a trip somewhere.
Well. we shall try to be mag
UNANIMOUS. We hope Kelly is
HAVING a good time. But he'd
better not tell us about it when
fhe comes back.
This will probably bring on
q hail storm at the very least.
In fact it may be showing when
the paper comes out. we wish
to register a grippe with the
weather man. The last few days
have been altogether too warm.
The perspiration rolls off us IN
streams and we find ourselves
in a state of continual irrlta-
tion. In fact we've been spelling
for a fight almost all week:
However. since it still coolS oil
enough at night so that we have
10 pull up the covers, we say
with gratitude that we are still
Glad we live in Montana instead
Of one of those places where
the temperature doesn't drop
as evening approached. Be all
this as it may, we wish to point
out that it takes a certain
amount of time to write this
paragraph, have it set in type,
put in the paper and printed.
ANYTHING can happen where
Montana weather is concerned,
and it usually happens fast. So
it would be just like the wealth
er man to double cross us too
(see item about Kelly abovel
and make us out a liar before
we can get the paper on the
street. If he'll just take it easy
on cooling us off, and not take
out his wrath by turning a
cloud burst loose on us We'll
be more than grateful to be
caught in a falSehood.
Our good friend H. w. Bum
ston. well known for his con-
situations with the big-wigS in
washington on such subjects as
the Yellowtail dam, is off again
on another trip. This time he
left Billings by air Saturday and
is now somewhere in Georgia
or North Carolina. He wrote us
a note on the back of a blank
check unfortunately unsignedl.
He informed us that he was
then "perching in a house built
by Vanderbilt" At one time
there were more than 200 estate
employees. The place is now a
guest house. That's luxury for
you.