Doing Right Thing Makes Perfect Cents
Bonnie Masteller of Lake City and Shirley Kielty of Moreno Valley, Calif., are mad at their father. If he hadn’t raised them to be so doggone honest, they’d be in Vegas now. On Wednesday, the sisters found a heavy bag of quarters sitting atop a newspaper machine at Arby’s on Appleway. Happy thoughts about feeding slots crossed their minds. But they turned the money over to Arby’s management, as Papa would have done - much to the relief of a Brand X rep who returned to Arby’s in a panic a short time later.
Unholy water
Seems Timothy Jones, 18, of Mullan wasn’t waving around a vial of holy water, after all. It did nothing to ward off the police officers who arrested him for trespassing at the Wallace Youth Center. Or so sez the Idaho News Observer … Sure, the Huckleberry Hound wondered what was said on a secure scanner channel after a young Deputy Dawg called in a license plate that belonged to a Kay See Ess Old-timer. Ere she switched channels, the dispatcher said: “Do you realize who you have?” Me? Of course I know who he had. Onward … Some leathernecks planning to attend the local Marine Corps League’s annual ball Nov. 6 aren’t thrilled that an Airedale will address them, even if it is retired Air National Guard Gen.
Denny Hague … For those of you keeping score at home, the vanity plate on Phil Batt’s Subaru Legacy proves the ex-guv hasn’t forgotten his roots: “ONION1.”
Gossipel according to DFO
A Hagadone Hospitality jumbo who holds a financial interest in a non-HH restaurant has a career death wish … Huckleberries hears that the hired help at the Alpine Store wants owner/ex-Sheriff Pierce Clegg to get another day job. He’s driven them cuh-razy since he took off his badge … Yeah, that was Mary Watson, back-to-the-future Sheriff Rocky Watson’s wife, at City Hall, trying to sew up Y2K parade dates. She (and everyone else around here) doesn’t want neo-Nazis goose-stepping on Sherman next summer. But she decided not to waste her money after learning that the neo-Nutsies could rain on her parades by marching at different times on those days … The Huckleberry Hound doesn’t want to make waves, but did you notice those two snakes that got married the other day at the CdA charter school - Phinehas and Dionysus - had male names? Larry Young did.
Huckleberries
If/when frosh Sarah Widmayer’s letter about gun control appears in Newsweek, it’ll be the first time in 15 years that a Judson (Illinois) College student has achieved such heights. No wonder her prof is pushing the ex-Athol home-schooler to go into the news biz … When I asked Sarah’s brother, Scott, what he thought of his new school, Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, he answered indirectly: “I have 60 pounds of books.” Then, maybe he wasn’t being indirect … Thanks, GOPeople, for your tickets to Congressman Helen Chenoweth’s Oct. 2 wedding. But shouldn’t you keep a few for yourselves? … Yeah, you heard the Bonner County squawker right Saturday. That tenant did say his landlord was an egg stealer … You may be wondering what the answer was, if you saw that billboard near Kellogg that popped Paul Pitman’s question to Connie Kierig: “Will you marry me?” Her answer, according to the Idaho News Observer: “Yes, oh yesyesyes” … His 2 cents: “Learning is that kind of ignorance that distinguishes the educated” - Ambrose Bierce … The Huckleberry Hound is not to repeat The Rotary Wheel news that President John Beutler dressed in drag to promote the club’s annual rose sale. So, I’ll just say that Nancy Sue Wallace hit a deer recently. The council president and Bambi were shaken up. But both are now doing fine.
Parting shot
We’ve overlooked one thing about that fight between two Coeur d’Alene Golf Club duffers. What were three attorneys and a stock broker (in one foursome) doing on the 15th tee Friday afternoon? Who was left back at the office to overcharge clients?