The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-12-24
THE OFFICE BOY WANTS TO KNOW
If it isn't great?
and grand?
and gloriouss

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tax?
| If you've read the proceedings oil
the police jurys
| and noticed that the high sheriff s
October poll tax collections were as
much as six whole dollars?
while theNovemberr receipts climbed
way UP to eighty entire piastres?
Whether this showing doesn't justify
the adjectiyes great, grand, glorious,
ct so-forth and eetera?
/ If it won I make The Boys big head
still bigger to contemplate these Inn
pressive fguress
/ and to think they re largely due
to him?
and that but for his nagging the
number of Ascension patriots who
coughed up their poll tax dollars in
the past two months wouldn't have
been nearly so numerous?
| IF you were one of the immortal
eighty-six?
-or if you are among the hundreds
who emulate the cows tail in always
being behind?
| If you're determined to wait until
December 31-and then forget it?
| If the doWn-the-bayou Pioneer will
still insist that the bug that's under.
the chip ism
Whether the levee board attorney
ship bug isn't agitating the chip very
perceptibly again?
II the chip won't be turned over and
the insect exposed at the next meeting
of the Atchafa1aya 1evee builders?
/ Why the attorneyship was excluded
from the effects Of the Lozano success
| sion?
What induced the universal legatee
to forego his claims upon this slice OF
Official pastry2
Who kept him from hogging the
whole pie?
| It anybody will question The Boys
perspicacity and prophetic talent anent
the Ibervllle swap?
Whether he can't lay claim to q di-
ploma as chip collector and bug.
hunter?
If any OF his New Orleans friends
| can put him wise as to the rumor that
the J. Q. Morris Company is going TO
add vegetables to its alphabetical
stock?
What breed of sweet potatoes 1t is
Bro. Dyer is raising on his Wave
land farms
Whether he proposes to petrify them
and pass them off for a new kind of
hammer?
# he's getting nutty on the potato
problem?
If any of the knights who were on
hand early Tuesday night will think
of missing another session?
Whether 1t wasn't toss-up between
the intellectual treat before the meet
ing and the gastronomic feast after
wards as to which was the better?
If the absentees who know how TO
appreciate q good story when they
hear it hadn't better show up on the
first Tuesday Of the year?
What the long stalled goat won't do
to the brace Of riders booked to GO
over the initiatory course that eYe-
ming?
| If Donaldsonvi1le isn't apt to be one
| of the goody-goody Louisiana towns
henceforths
II any of the bad boys who were
before the court last week will forget
the Sund y-sehool lesson Judge Paul
read them?
If they won't be likely TO mend their
devious ways and obey the command
ment to Remember the Sabbath day
and keep both back and front doors
closed''?
IF Linde is going to put on airs
because he was found to be good
boy and escaped the lecture from the
| bench?
Whether Rumsey and Guy. Newt
won't be too stuck up for anything
| when they hear that The Chiefs boss
editor has been taken for each of them
since be began patronizing barber
shops and cutting his alfalfa?
If the reconciliation of Sweet Iber-
ville's hitherto serapping Democratic
/ factions isn't an edifying object lesson
| for Christmas
Whether it isn't just too sweet for
/ anything to see the brethren aVoWlng
mutual forgiveness and affection and
| taking back all the mean things they
/ erstwhile said about each other?
/ IF it isn't wonderful what a soothing
effect political pap will have upon the
most auarreIsome youngsters?
and that without regard to how old
Ethey are?
] RI any Republican "sugar teat that
Brother Calvin used to lambaste SO
freely could like the suceulent morsel
better or hang onto IL tighter than the
/ average IberViIle Democrat?
Whether the brother aforesa won 't
be willing to acknowledge that even
the wicked sugar teats = are not
/ so black as he painted them?
provided, of course, they will vote
for him for Judge?
How the West Baton Rouge attorney
dares to have the effrontery to attempt
interference with the IbervilIe tradea
If Leblanc, who announces himself
a candidate for the iudgeship, will be
egarded as the white pearln by The
Eswappers?
By what right little West Baton
Rouge presumes TO have any voice in
the selection of the district judge?
II II isn't enough honor for her te