The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-11-26
THE OFFICE BOY WANTS TO KNOW

THE OFFICE BOY WANTS TO KNOW
If you've paid that poll tax yet:
or are still thinking about doirg 1t
some other time?
How many citizens of Ascension dis
franchised themselves by this sort ot
procrastina nation last year and the year
before?
Why not cough up a dollar and
square the poll tax right now, even il
you're not ready to settle your other
taxes?
Il it's true that the up-river member
of the Atchafalaya Levee Board has
weakened?
IF he's really promised to be good
and do the guys bidding?
# cong gatulations to Assumption s
John will soon be in order?
IF he's going to land in the attorney
ship berth after all and leave Judge
Harry out in the cold alone?
What the Iberville incumbent is go
ing to do about it?
Il Assumption Johns luck hasn't
got that of the lousy calf skinned to
death?
Who'd a-thought it was luckier to
lose than to win the circuit judge NOM
ination?
Whether Johns foresight is as good
as his hindsight?
or it was simply a clear case of
pork luck?
IF Babe and Polite have got any
papers except the Times-to show for
that rabbit and snake story?
Whether they had anything but gun
powder in their TASKS?
II it is certain th at their predicament
wasn't caused by an overload Of am
munition?
Whether Babe is sure that Polite
was about to shoot rabbit and be at
tackled by a snake?
If it isn't just possible that it was o
snake he was aiming at and a rabbit
that was about TO attack him?
If the hunters can produce either a
rabbit tail or snake tail to back up
their rattling snake and rabbit tale?
What has come over the powers that
be?
II they re going to enforce the Sum
day law sure enough this time?
Who'd a-thunk they were in really
truly earnest?
If it wasn't real mean OF Chief Dep
uty Eddie to drive quietly about town
on such mission?
Why he diGn't have the bells rung
and the whistles footed when he started
out to find the open doors?
Why he didn't hire brass band to
lead the procession and do the thing
up in some kind OF style?
II he wouldn't have found this the
tightest-shut town in the state had the
folks known he was coming?
Whether the deputy's gumshoe tao
tics mayn't be classed as a mis-
demeanor?
because it is obtaining informa-
ton under false pretenses and with
malice and prepense and aforethought!
IF the judge.won't excuse the viola-
tors on the plea that they didn't know
that the sheriff was coming?
If Gee Dee and Wing. really killed
those eleven squirrels?
IF they won't have a hard time CON
vincing some people that they did?
IL the fellows who partook of the
sauce piquante'' aren't willing to be.
lieve it?-but,
If those same fellows won't hesitate
before taking in their bear story?
What sort Of s'snake medicine
they took to make them see bear
tracks?
If you had a Thanksgiving turkey
Thursday?
Ii that is the only thing you were
| thankful for?
| If it isn't turkey-and other things
| that cause lot Of Us fellows TO fee
thankful on Thanksgiving?
If some of US weren't full OF some
thing else besides thanks?
Why the Picayune didn't give ths
guv. chance to express his reasons
Why Louisianias should be thankful
II his first reason wouldn't have
been, "They should be thankful for
having Me for governor?
Why was Honest Martins senti
ments omitted from the page?
Il it was because he hasn't any?
# it wouldn't have been a good ides
to get the guys and show them to the
ayor-elects
# it isn't likely he would have satf
ssDem's mine?.
Ii the States wouldn't have headed
the column, containing this long anf
eloquent statement, mayor Behr
mans Beautiful and Inspiring Sentl
| ments on Thanksgiving?