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pracucaiiy tne entire population twill move to Helena to take in the i fair.Girls, Merry Wids,WhoGirls and Merry Widows, here'syour chance of a lifetime. He’s in i charge of the Chouteau county col- I lective exhibit in Agricultural hall on the fairground, and his name is William Atzinger; address Fort Benton, Montana.Ever hear of him? Surely you must have, because he has been pictured in newspapers from coast to coast as the hardboiled guy upon whom no man or government has been able to saddle the Montana tax for he-men persisting in living their lives in the state of single-blessedness.He admits it. Not only that—he glories in the fact. Both facts, in fact.Thousand* of Proposals.He has already received 23,000 proposals from trusting, kind-hearted, sympathetic females ranging in years from 17 to 70. from almost as many localities from Nome to Key West and Bangor to San Diego, to help him emerge into a taxless condition. But his marble-hearted disposition, and astigma-tized outlook has held him thus far adamant, unyielding. determined. Besides, he declares that their as-' sistance is not necessary, because he is maintaining himself taxless, ’n’ ever’thing, Just as it is. So why worry about him?He Likes Their Company.Not that he has an ingrowing disposition, or that he is a con-i firmed woman-hater. Anything but that, as demonstrated when fair': visitors at the fair stop at the Chouteau booth to admire the excellent products of farm and garden over which he holds domain. He beams upon them—his feminine visitors, and gives them all his attention so long as they tarry, to the exclusion of any and all malesof the species.lie’s Now Introduced.Having thus introduced him toour home-grown and the other varieties of pretty girls and widows, merry and otherwise. The Independent's reporter will call this morning for cigars, or home-brew, or whatever Mr Atzinger’s dispensing; and in the meantime will get j down to other business and record i that his county’s exhibit is all to | the good, including the 57 different varieties of garden stuff— pumpkins j of golden hue heading the list, and the grains and grasses typifying ! the good times that prevail around ( | and in historic Fort Benton thisvear.
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Helena Independent
Helena, Montana, US
Tue, Sep 13, 1921
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