The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-30
OH YOU TELEPHONE
AND MISSING WORDS
MISSING WORD MAN HAD HIS
HANDS FULL LAST NIGHT
WORDS SUPPLIED.

it all came about like this: He for
got to inform his good wife that ht
had arranged to have the ladies who
have been keeping up with the miss
ing words telephone their answers tC
him at his home last night-so, after
he had answered about thirteen tele
phone calls his wifes suspicious be
gun to arise (and she also) and be
! fore he had time to explain (betweeI
phone calls) dish pans, rolling pin!
and other things usually handy II
the modern kitchen had accumulated
to such an extent about the telephone
(and they were making such a noise,
that he could hardly hear the voices
at the telephone. We tried our best Z,
explain the matter and every time
we thought the thing was squared
ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling went the tele
phone-so we don't really know
whether we're safe yet or not. You
see every time We answered the
phone we had to explain some more
and there were an even 107 telephone
calls-sometimes as many as three
persons talking at once. Can't you
see our predicament? Our hats off
to the efficient and accommodating
young lady who operated the board
in the telephone office-for she it was
who first soothed our dsfgured feer
ings by extending her sympathy at
a time when it was sorely needed:
(Ardmore's telephone service has
reached the highest standard posi-
ble-this fact was forcibly demon
strated to us last highland the first
time we hear anyone "cussin'" the
telephone we're going to swat 'em)
I will appreciate it If the ladies' will
phone my wife today and tell her that
it was the four dollars they were
trying to get-and not her husband.
Do this by all means and save me.
If there was anyone in Ardmore
who failed to try for the four dollars
last night due for the missing words
yesterday it was because they could
not get to telephone The missing
word man (some good lady called him
the missing link"-and right o,ei
the telephone. too, where everybody
could hear herr was busy from seven
until past ten o'clock answering the
phone Mostly ladies answered, but
quite a number of men, boys and lit
tie girlies tried, too. I'm sorry Il
give all who phoned me fou
big round silver dollars-brand new
ones.
1t was study (and we enjoyed i
to sit at the phone and
ook back beyond the voice transmit
ed over the wire and see, perchance,
glad-faced boys and girls frolicking
Upon the floor of a prosperous house,
hold; maybe some poor mother who
needed four dollars badly with which
10 purchase necessities for her less
fortunate offspring; perhaps a party
If glee some young ladies' had gath
cred around a single phone to "try
ust for fun" and have a hearty laugh |
when each by turn had failed to sup
ply the proper words; some little |
10Y, mayhaps, had figured that he
,ould win the four dollars and pur-
,hase marbles and tops and fishing
ackle (fishing times almost here
ome say it is; some little blue-eyed
ass doubtless had arranged to spend
he four dollars for a dolly-"wif
,reat big eyes and long golden locks
Nho knows?
Promptly at seven o'clock Seven
even-nine" began to act somewhat
'eculiar and three minutes after that
ime was doing some Of the greatest
ontortion acts you ever saw-acts
hat Z. Il. Barnum would have given
thousands of dollars for in his balmy
ircus days. The first phone call was
hat of Mrs. R. A. Hefner, who sup
lied the two missing words style
r"-left out of Madden's ad last Sun
ay. Only three others supplied them
everyone giving the
lords right now"
Today three words are omitted from
he page and the prize for the first
orrect list opened will be one dollar
III answers MUST BE MAILED to
he Missing Word Contest Manager,
are of The Ardmoreite.