Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-20
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A pretty thing attired In filmy lace.
With studi0Ms and almost classi:

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A pretty thing attir.d In filmy lace,
With studious and almost classi:
S" very staid and serious OF mien.
That it IN very patent to he seen
She's weighted with responsibility
A message for the anxious world has
she.
There are some wrongs she feels that
she must right
Upon this one and a%ll-important
night.
She has has it write" dow" up"" the
A message which is written from the
And it is very plain for all to see
Shes going to read the valedictory.
The worlds been going wrong since
time began.
It's up to her to- right her fellow man,
And start him i'm the way which he
should go.
There are s"me thing = the siipshnd
world should know.
The time IL ripe tn peddle good add
Md pearls or wisdom far beyond all
price.
The night has passed, her paper has
been read.
The world wags on and this fair
maid il wed.
She then takes the advice all of her
life
or some tall chap of whom SHE is
the wife.
Alas. this is the melancholy fate
or nearly every sweet girl graduate.
ACCORDING TO UNCLE ABNER.
Every once and "A while we run
across an old -fashioned duffer who
carries his roll of bills in the toe III
his shoes and 1t will be noticed that he
gen'ally has Il roll 4" carry.
1T is a noticeable fact that very few
highball experts ever get to be pres
ident OF railroads.
Mexico is g"in' t" have a stable
government. That ought to please
the horses and mules.
Mrs. Anson Frisby says high society
of Hickyville is suffering from ongwec,
whatever in topllet that is. There
hasn't been an ice cream social since
two weeks ago last Thursday night.
There Is Il runlOr to the effect that
one or our society ladies takes ar
senic for her complexion and the
women all say III they had a COM
plexion like hers. they would take ar
senic. too: and ii that didn't do the
work. IT, " would take Paris Green.
Here. kitty, kitty!
One of them entitled to a Carnegie
hero medal il the Teller who invented
the t~hree-cofnered lead pencil that
won't roll off the desk.
A Teller never knows until the time
comes whether he is going to- be a
daredevil or a oward and you can't
tell much by the ook of a Teller,
either.
The Hardsheil congregation of our
village is thinkin' some Of cuttin'
down expenses by dispensing with
the sermons and the music.
A Teller gets "A worse reputation for
drinkin' after he stops than he had
before. for everybody says: "Yo
Oughta seen him when he was hittiu'
'em up-a regular souse.' But then.
it's Il purity good plan to quit any
now.
There Is only one thing that wor-
ries q woman more than the high cost
The only thing in the world that
will stick tighter than a mustard
plaster is a life insurance agent.
The price Of strawberries may nc
lower some day. but the bottoms nf
the boxes will never be. They are
getting higher every ear.
Elmer Jones has bought the right
to sell a patent hair restorer. His
territory Is all that, section OF tho
United States east OF the Mississippi
river and he expects to start out ON
the bicycle In a day or two with the
fore fall.
Deacon Stubbs missed the train
the other day when he started to 50
down to the city. He figured No. II
would be Two hours and 81 minutes
a as usual. but she was only two
hours n 40 minutes late.
Whenever the public function is Il
failure there never seems to be my
body in pertickler to blame. but when
1t ts a success everybody is respon-
sible for 1t.
Uncle Ezra Harkins says 1t is too
durn bad hat rheumatic gen'ally
comes In winter time when there
farm anyhow.
II q Teller wants to see how many
different styles of plug hats there
have been In the last 40 years he
wants to 90 to a heightened weddin'
in this mans town.
One Of the embarrassin' things in
this world IL to get to h barber shop
late in the week when the Police
Gazette has been all worn to pieces.
Women used to go to a party to
talk about their clothes. but now they
30 to the party to talk about their
electrlcs and make It embarrassin'
Tor those who haven't got one.
There amt no who kin be SO
polite az the Teller who is about to
fOreclOse q mortgage on YOU house
and lot.
OF course, there are arguments for
and agin' the cellul0ld collar, but the
fact remains that the fellers that wear
EN- seldOm get higher than congress-
MI
nostication. That IL that it viii rain
on b day ret for the Sunday school
p'f - fim,ns M. GOT . nne Job on q