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Last call for Community BBQ!
You’ve been seeing the ad in the Buzz for about three
weeks now (if not, see page 7). Well, it’s finally here!
Valley View Home’s Annual Community BBQ
is today from 4:30 – 7:00 at Valley View. Pulled pork
sandwiches with sides along with drinks & a dessert will
PEL be served.
8 GOS PS MALTA HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Also, there will be a jump house and yard games
G R O U FRIDAY, JUNE 28 • 5:00 - 9:15pm
T R U R ING SATURDAY, JUNE 29 for the kids, and ALL are invited to attend.
FEA UMOR OF
Poster contest for Sail
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THE OVELACE SUNDAY, JUNE 30 • 11:30am - 4:30pm
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FREE Admission The Fort Peck Sailing Club is again sponsoring a
Concessions will poster contest for the Can-Am Fort Peck Sailing Regatta
For a complete list of groups & schedule go
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There are no age requirements, and all medium and
poster size are accepted. Information and lettering will
See Western Drug for be the responsibility of the printer and not the artist.
fun and safety in the sun! Submission deadline is July 11, 2019 to the
We are expanding many departments in the store Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery. Posters will be identified by
so be sure to let us know if there are items that you numbers only while being on display for public vote.
would like us to try and stock for you. Accepted posters will be on display at the Wheatgrass
WE WILL BE CLOSING AT 2 PM ON Arts & Gallery on Friday, July, 12 from 5:30-7:30 with the
SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH ONLY. public invited for a reception. The posters will then be on
So please remember to pick up your display at the following locations where the public will be
prescriptions before 2 PM on the 29th able to cast votes for their favorite poster:
• July 12-18 — The Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery.
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Thanks for Listening Mattie came running as one of the other hands
hollered for her. In white-faced disbelief she held her
Women! husband’s head to her breast, slowly rocking back and
forth in a daze.
Ya’ Gotta Love ‘em They buried Slim in full view of the mountains he
Let me tell you of a wonderful dearly loved.
lady who competed in a mans world For the next two days Mattie stayed in her room
and won. Her name isn’t important. mourning the loss of her soul mate. She contemplated
She lived in Colorado after having moving back to Ohio but that thought lasted about 15
moved there from Ohio as an eighteen year-old young seconds.
lady enamored with stories of the west back in the early On the third day after the funeral she was up before
days when the west was young. the guys, had breakfast and the work orders ready for
I guess she learned about the west and particularly them. She spoke her rehearsed speech to them as they ate
Arizona after reading stories by her favorite author who her biscuits, ham and eggs and hot cakes.
was from her hometown of Zanesville, Ohio. That’s It went like this: “Boys, I’m not leaving this ranch
right....Zane Grey. that I love. I’m here to stay. If you don’t like the idea of
He spun stories of young ladies coming out from working for a woman I will have your pay ready when
the east in search of a husband who had to be a cowboy you finish your meal. If you decide to stay you will each
just like the handsome, barrel-chested, tousled-haired, get a fifty-cent a day raise beginning now.
rough-and-tumble but kind to ladies and dogs men who However....for those of you who smoke roll-your-
Grey portrayed. own cigarettes I will deduct fifty-cents a day to make up
After a couple months of teaching school in a one for time it takes you to roll those things.”
room school house high up among the 14,000’ peaks of One smoker stood up and headed for the door. The
Colorado a young cowboy fitting the description offered other one stayed.
by Zane came riding through the school yard and the The other hand, a short fat dumpy but able young
young lady was immediately smitten as was the shy man whose name was Kansas, even though he was
young cowboy. Let’s just call the young lady Mattie and originally from Illinois, wore suspenders and was
the cowboy Slim. afflicted with chronic “plumbers crack.”
After a whirlwind courtship of about 3 months the Mattie addressed the problem this way: “Kansas, I
couple were married in a small country church shadowed will deduct the fifty-cent raise until such a time as you
by the Sawtooth Range of central Colorado where the start wearing a belt with your suspenders. You waste fifty-
cowpuncher worked on his budding and building small cents a day stopping work to readjust your britches!”
ranch. So after the speech she was left with Monty who was
There were three other cowboys working for the now a non-smoker and Kansas who was already busy
ranch and Mattie found she was required to cook three building himself a belt out of a piece of rope until he
meals a day and do the washing for her new husband. could take time to fashion one out of leather.
In her “spare” time she tended the garden, bucket fed Mattie’s ranch prospered and she became one of the
orphaned calves, and kept the house clean. most revered women in Colorado. She worked alongside
This was woman’s work you see! the men everyday, cooked their meals, made payroll,
When she could steal the time she’d saddle up her sewed and cleaned for them and was dearly loved by all
horse and ride out to meet Slim and the boys and help of the men who ever worked for her.
doing whatever it was they were doing at the time. Slim I worked for Mattie for three years before moving
was a fast learner and didn’t try to dissuade Mattie from on.
learning the ropes of the day-to-day management of the She never remarried and as far as anyone knew she
ranch. In fact he was secretly very proud of Mattie. never encouraged any one as a “bunkhouse buddy” with
As it turned out it was a good thing Mattie was a benefits.
quick learner as well because after just six months of Mattie was a Christian lady. She died peacefully in
married bliss tragedy struck Slim as he was breaking a her sleep one cold December day under the shadows of
young colt. His foot caught on a corral post as the horse the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. They buried her next
was trying its level best to unseat him and as Slim fell to her beloved Slim. She was 89 years young.
he hit his head on the bottom corral rail, killing him That’s it for now folks. Thanks for Listening.
instantly if not sooner. ~ Virgil Vaupel