The Ordway new era., 1911-07-14
QUEER AND QUAINT QUIPS
Unusual Uncanny Unheardof and Unbelievable Happenings
Occurring During the Past Week this Funny Old World
of Ours and Swped by Us from Our Exchanges

Attorney General Griffin says that
the individual drinking cup law does
not affect saloons, soda fountains, res
taurants or similar places. He holds
that the law applies only to drinking
cups where water or liquids are given
away free.
Miss Mary Roup met M. L. Lacey in
Pueblo at 8 a. m. July 3, was married
to him at 4 p. m. and complained at
the police station at 8 p. m. that her
husband had deserted her and gone to
Denver. For quick action that was
going some.
A prairie schooner equipped with
electric lights and other fancy fxin's
drove through Greeley the other day.
The wagon wheels furnished the pow
er that run the dynamo. Somewhat
different from the "Pike's peak or
bust" days.
Mrs. John W. Powers, while on her
honeymoon. went into Los Angeles
millinery store to buy q hat. Falling
into conversation with a clerk, she
discovered that the saleswoman was
the deserted wife Of her new husband.
The man Is in Jail.
The La Junta churches are now con.
ducting union services in the city
park. Probably this will be space
enough for the unregenerate to gather,
but we doubt IL. Anyhow, it's lots
more comfortable than hot and
steaming church this weather.
California now has q law under
which husbands convicted OF non.sup-
port are Jailed, put to work and their
wives paid at the rate of $l.5o per day.
There is considerably more sense In
this than In the county supporting
the woman while the man idles In the
cooler.
dad" Stephenson, ex-newspaper-
man, and at present the popcorn and
peanut prince Of La Junta, celebrated
his s2d birthday on July l. Over 100
friends paid their respects and each
received a handsome little souvenir
from the veteran typesticker and his
good wife.
The immortal Declaration Of Inde-
pendence is now kept In hermetical.
ly sealed case in steel safe In the
state department at Washington.
When the British sacked the national
capital In 1872 the document was saved
by being hid In an old mill near the
chain bridge.
A Denver woman was haled into
the police court because she main
tained twenty-five cats on her home
place. Magistrate Stapleton decided
that three cats we're light orchestra,
but that twenty-five constituted a
brass band and ordered her to reduce
the number accordingly.
Potatoes, selling at and cents per
pound. are not the only aristocrats In
the market. The lowly prune, the
subject OF the funny mems countless
boarding house jokes, has scared In
price TO from to II cents per pound
and Is locked up with the diamonds
and other family valuables In the
safety deposit vaults.
The police OF Denver we're notified
the other day that Mrs. Burt II. Howe
had quarreled with her husband and
declared that unless he made up with
her by 8 p. m. she would commit sui
eide. An automobile filed with police
was rushed to her home, arriving at
5:55. just as she was walking toward
a lake, and prevented the deed.
Plans we're laid at Brussels recently
by Gary, Morgan ct al. for the forma.
tion OF world wide steel trust. II
carried out this billionaire combina-
tion will eliminate competition in the
steel business In all parts OF the world.
The plan has aroused very bitter feel.
ings In this and other countries-but
nothing will be done to stop it, as
usual, we presume.