The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-02-11

THE OFFICE BOY WANTS TO KNOW
Where, when and how the veteran
types stiekerof The Chiefs outfit caught
onto his Valentine joke?
If it isn't safe proposition that he
didn't hear anybody else get it off?
-seein' as how he can't hear thun-
der?
-or himself think?
# it's possible you don't know what
the Valentine joke is?
Whether it won't be worth your
while to drop around and hear the old
man remark
THAT Sheriff Sam will send Val
entine long ways off when the gov
ernor signs the warrant?n
How that strikes you for cheerful
bon mot for St. Valentines Day?
II the darkey in jail won t be tempted
to exclaim when he hears it, Well,
I'll be hangedn?
Whether he'll consider the warrant
good moose or knot?
II such 1ugubrious punning ought to
be tolerated in a first-class moose
paper?
at least anywhere but in The Office
Boys column?
If you felt, heard or saw anything
of that earthquake?
What happened to it after it left
Plaquemine?
# it was travelling so fast that it hit
only the high places?
How it happened to jump over Bayou
Goula and Whitecastle and land on
one little spot in Donaldsonville?
What in the world possessed it to
give the law Office in Nichols avenue
shaking up and slight the other
buildings of the town?
Why it journeyed up to Baton Rouge
and omitted to pay its respects to the
intervening villages en- passanb?
It it WASH t mean of the Persimmon-
vile correspondent to queer the game
by wiring a New Orleans daily that
the quake had been caused by an ex-
plosion Of dynamite?
particularly after Prof. Anderson,
Of Tulane, had advanced the theory
of falling meteor2
If it isn't probable at the story OF
The eonvulsion originated when the
ground jumped up and slapped some
fellow in the face?
If such an experience ever happened
% you?
say during local Catholic fair?
or on your way home from a club
1inner?
or at any other old time?
If it's any wonder The Boss looks
younger and spryer than he did twenty
years ago?
II it isn't enough to make any in
sipient patriarch seem and feel young
% be fattered up the way he has been?
Whether The Times's champion iol-
ier knew that our Boss's friskiness
vas caused by having the prettiest
yal baby in St. Helena parish named
after him?
Ii there's any discount on "Margue-
lite Bentley Holland as the cognomen
# a piney woods belle?
Il that name isn't lovely enough for
my baby that breathes?
-or any grown.up, either?
and if the Greensburg charmer
hat wears it isn't just as lovely as
Ter name, teither?
Whether Pab Holland, Ma Holland, |
listers and brothers Holland and
lamesake Bentley won't all make az
idavit to this if anybody doubts it?
What you'd do to the weather man |
t you had him within reach.
# it isn't about time for somebody |
o give him good calling down? /
What he means by spilling so much |
weather. over this part of the country? |
If he wants to transform us into mud |
urtles?
If I'm Louisiana wasn't sorry 1t |
vas?
II s'In the Mud wouldn't have been |
. more appropriate title for the showss
Why the levee boards don't solve
be question of supplying Bayou La /
ourche with water by connecting |
he damned stream with Louisiana |
square?
If the only difference between the
ayou and the Square isn't that the
ormer is damned while the latter is
rmned?
L it Wouldn't be good idea to quit
aiming the Square and dam it?
Il the whole damned business would
It be improved by such an arrange
aento
Women find quick reliefin DR.. Thacher's
liver and Blood Syrup. I