Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-23
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is still another way-pulling the wool
over the editors eyes and getting In
for nothing. This is very popular
form of entry.
A lady of our city has found sure
cure for broken dishes. II the dish TO
be mended can be tied together with
stout string. then placed in boiling
milk and left one hour, you can never
tell the dish has been broken and IL
can afterwards be put in boiling water
without the pieces coming apart.
This experience has been tried and
proven and many are the broken dishes
which were thought to be useless
which are now as good as new.
We have residing in tho western
suberbs of our town young man, who,
If reports are true, is wonderfully and
fearfully made. HIS doctor said he
had an iron constitlOn; his friends said
he had nerves of steel; his uncle said
he had a wooden head; the girls said
he had a heart of stone: his enemies
declared that there was more brass to
him than anything else; others deolar-
ed he had lots Of sand, while his ad-
mirers declared he was all wool and
yard wide.
One distillery company in Kentucky
turns out every seven days l,20S bar
res Of sweet mash whiskey. The out
put for year would be 81, 400 barrels.
The cost of all this to the manufactur.
er may be fairly estimated at 1914, 900
and they receive from the wholesalers
a profit of from 81 to 81 per barrel.
The government come in for nice
little rake off, but the fellow who has
to pay it all, including transportation
charges, government and local license
fees, salary Of barkeeper, and rent OF
building is the man before the bar,
| and for 62, 400 barrels of booze he lets
go of $24, ,76l, ,67S and then goes home
and beats his wife because supper
isn't ready.
A young man went to a preacher to
get married, and the preacher asked
How old are you. John?" He replied,
81 am half as old as my father. He is
two years older than my mother. My
eldest sister IS two years older than
my youngest sister. My youngest
sister is four years older than my
youngest brother" "How old are
they altogether" asked the preacher.
The young man replied that the five
children are seventeen years older
than his father and mother. How old
is John and each OF the children and
his father and mother?- Exchange.
Well, if the young man isn't married
until the preacher gets his age figured
out, Methuselah would be kid com
pared TO him,
The best man we have in our town
for the general good of the town is the
one you will always see on the front
seat III the progressive "band wagon. F"
lie IL the first one to extend an open
aud warm hand to greet the stranger
and welcome him TO the best town in
the state. He will resent an insult to
our town as quickly as he would slur
at member Of his family. He very
politely invites the chronic croaker
to "moye on" He is ever ready to
give his just proportion toevery public
enterprise. He talks up our town at
home and abroad and believes it the
best place upon Gods green earth in
which to live and desires to be buried
here when he dies. Let as all try and
be like this man for one year and our
little city will take on new life and
improve as never before in its history.
We often wonder why it is 80 many
young men can be seen loafing upon
, our streets until late hour of night
Many of them are from our best
homes. The fathers Of these young
, men, many Of them at least, are num-
bered among our best citizens II
their COW or their horse or even theIl
favorite dog was away from home after
dark they would be out on search
but their own children can roam the
town all night with apparent no effor,
being made to find them. The boy
seems 10 be turned loose at a tender
age to wander at will into the paths o.
sin and vice and then we wonder
where all our tramps, and worthless
specimens of humanity come from
D 1t is a regrsttable fact that too man!
e of them come from seed germinateC
5 in good homes and then sown in a care
less manner upon our streets and bacl
alleys. Reader, is your bog wastnl
his time upon our streets? IL so hat
you not, at least, look after him a
q carefully at nightfall as you woul,