The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-02-26

II 10 EaHi AA'8h ftf'O
men are going to the Klondyke this
spring. The fools will work the mines
and the wise men will work the fools.
The snow fall at Truckee Thursday is
reported to have been nearly IL inches
and at the summit about two feet and II
half. At Olinghouse about four inches
fell.
FoR SALE-.A secondhand White sew
ing machine in good running order,
price $40. Inquire at this office.
Potatoes are becoming quite scarce in
Eiko county. They are bringing 500 per
ton and will be $40 in another month.
In Lyon county they are bringing $l3
per ton and they are being shipped to
California by the carload.
Social dance tonight.
Auditor Shearer has again vetoed the
claim of the Office Speciality Company
for metallic cases, allowed at the Janu-
airy meeting Of the Board OF County
Commissioners and sent back in an
amended form at the February meeting.
The San Francisco papers say Col.
Jack Wright has been offered the super
~intendency of the Western Division.
He is very popular with his men ON the
Sacramento Division and they are all
hoping he will not leave his present
position.
Mrs. Belle Wing Lake, who will lee
ture this afternoon and this evening in
Union Church, is a finished speaker.
We would advise every mother to send
her boys and girls to hear, besides at
tending themselves. To miss hearing
the lecture is to miss a treat.
Monday morning the mining suit of
d. Fl. Sisson, ct. al, vs. r. NJ. Norris
and Robert Sommers for possession of
the Morning Star Mine in Olinghouse
comes up in the District Court at Reno
and doubtless the county seat will be
visited by u large delegation of Wads-
worth people.
An Ohio editor says that hay fever is
caused by kissing grass widows. A Mis-
souri, editor says it is caused by a grass
widow kissing q COW by moonlight. An
Iowa editor says it is caused by a fellow
kissing the hired girl while she is feed
ing hay to the COW, and a Kansas ex-
change is of the opinion hat it is caused
by missing the girl and kissing the COW.
Queen Esther Rebekah' Lodge No. 9
has work every meeting night and the
membership is rapidly increasing. They
have an entertainment every meeting
and the boys are therefore very much
interested. The Odd Fellows have a
world of praise for the Noble Grand,
Mrs. Alice Short, for the way in which
she delivers her charges and the manner
in which she presides.
Representative Lowering of Massachu-
setts, is the author OF a joint resolution
proposing au amendment to the U. S.
Constitution authorizing Congress to
regulate the hours OF labor in the states.
The cotton mills of the South, against
which the resolution is aimed, or rather
the long hours worked in them, which
it is claimed has enabled them to drive
the New England Mills out OF many
profitable markets, sent a large delega-
ton OF influential men to protest against
the resolution.
A little corn on a maiden grew
Listen to my wall of toe
Cursed by the pinch OF a too-tight shoe,
(Instead of a three a number two);
1t grew, it grew,
Listen, to my wall of toe.
AS time went on, las time will do
Listen to my wall OF toe
The Corr waxed red, the maiden blue;
II was ten times worse than the grip
kerchew
Too true, too true!
listen to my wall of toe.
She had a seat in the end OF the pew
Listen to my wall of toe
And Il man with another seat in view
Put his cowhide boot on her kangaroo,
Oh whew! Oh whew!