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Show Chatter Box . . . Dear Suzy, A delegation of irate housewives , called on Luella McAllister this I week protesting to her for the ex-.fchibition ex-.fchibition of ambition she has been .isplaying. It seems that Luella set TJ very bad example, according to the women, by washing the family car, which the women contended was a man's work. Said Chairwoman Chairwo-man Olive Barney, "The women in our district are chopping all the wood, milking the cows, carrying the coal, carrying out the ashes, cleaning the corrals and going for the mail, and we don't see how we can take on this extra work of washing the family car. We hope Luella sees the light and in the future curbs her cleaning complex." com-plex." It seems that the women don't want the menfolk to rest or have any recreation in that neighborhood. neighbor-hood. This has been evidenced a-gain a-gain this week at the Henry Hansen Han-sen domicile. It is called the case of the "Fireless Furnace," and the story unfolds thusly and soly: Henry Hansen, who is the local mortarician has just about completed com-pleted a new house and all that was needed to be done was to hook the furnace up, and get a little heat in the house. Eb Stapley and Dee King, specialists in heating heat-ing repairs when there are no interruptions, in-terruptions, were called in for a consultation. It developed that the furnace first needed an electrician to do some minor work before the men could start and so Henry left for the electrician. Said Eb to Dee, "He might be all day and time is awasting." Said Dee to Eb, " If he has gone for Glen Rawlinson, the season will be over before he gets back." So with this classical deduction deduc-tion the men left the Hansen home and wound up as they had planned right in the middle of innumerable geese that were taking a siesta on Fool Creek reservoir. Late that evening eve-ning the men returned with the back end of the car stuffed with geese, and untroubled consciences, until they remembered the Hansen furnace. They hurried, over to that frigid household to make amends, and proffered one of their geese as ! a peace offering. Adrain, Ruth and Lenore forgot the cold house, and the shaking limbs they had suffered suffer-ed throughout the day after seeing the bird, and went about getting it ready for the oven. The men went to work and worked most of the night getting the furnace in shape and incidentally getting all caught up with their work so that they could make another trip to Fool Creek the next day. The poor Hansens had frozen all day and then couldn't sleep at night on account of the din set up by these stalwarts pounding on tin and recounting their experiences of the goose hunt of that day. Bill Killpack says, "Eb and Dee are darned good workers when you can get them, but it takes a closed season on fish and game to do it. That will be late in January." Eb and Dee should be like the workmen who were remodeling a building in West Yellowstone. They left the building in a bad state of disrepair and then put up a sign, "This building hasn't been abandoned aband-oned the workmen have only gone fishing, and the work will be resumed when the fish quit biting." Speaking of getting geese, the North Tract Grapevine relates how P'rank Foote got his. He went outside out-side at night to see that everything every-thing was shipshape and saw a large goose trying to get into the lighted chicken coop. Frank stalked stalk-ed it with a shovel handle and soon the "goose hung high." The next day Pat Barney was shy one white pet goose and hearing of Frank's fortune called there. Frank was mightly proud to show the goose to Pat, and Pat was very dismayed when he viewed the remains of his pet tame goose. It was all settled amicably with Frank ahead one goose and shy five bucks, and Pat was ahead five bucks, but shy one goose. Which brings up the time, according accord-ing to Oppenheimer, of when E. D. Cady was alive and living on the North Tract. He bought three geese and was going to raise a flock of them. The next day two boys saw three geese on the drain far north of the Cady farm and hurried to the Cady house and tola him. Mr. Cady took down the old trusty gun and went out and got the three geese. Proudly he carried them home to show his wife, who remarked, re-marked, "How can you raise any geese if you buy them one day and |