Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-07-11

them have since the railroad passes
| were abolished. a.
going to attract much attention without
better press work.
New York has the stepless street car.
blu what Is really needed is the strap
less street car.
Then again it is strange that you so
seldom see q peroxide blond sitting on
the b~leachers.
An European physician h claims
hat he can make hair grow on bald
heads is hailed as a genius. but he isn't
a genius. He is a short n ugly.
Women are now wearing hats with
out trimming. II they keep on doing
sensible things, there will soon be no
question as to their right to the ballot.
A New Jersey man says he hasn't
been able to sleep in 80 years. Why
MIR. Carnegie advises all men to live
within their incomes. Personally, MIR.
Carnegie has n difficulty in doing this.
Judging by the number of candidates
who expect to sweep the country. 1t
ought to be pretty clean by next fall.
Scientist says card playing stupeies
the mind. Evidently he never held bet
ter than a pair of deuces.
The rubber trust has declared a div
idend of 100 per cent. which shows. for
one thing, that the sale of hot water
bottles and rubber collars is going
bravely on.
A Chicago man wants a divorce be-
cause his wife is too fond of moving
picture shows. But how much worse
1t would be II she had a taste for grand
opera.
Stripes have been abolished in the
California pe%nitentiaries. Now that 1t
Is a suffraget state there may be fire.
quent changes in styles there.
Madero say he will end the present
revolution In Mexico In two months.
Perhaps. but there will be several more
going on by that time.
There Is some talk of a compromise
candidate. But 1t looks as though they
may all be compromised before they
get through.
Having nothing else to do now. those
and try to find Vice President Fair
banks.
Plumbing mas been declared a sci
ence, but it seems that plumbing
pays almCst too we'll for that.
A Chicago woman is suing a beauty
doctor for $4,000. Not many would
have the face to do that.
The Pennsylvania man who discov-
cred a coal mine in his own cellar
certainly found the right thing in
ers' Strike. Occasionally there is a
strike that helps poor old Ult Con-
sumner.
linen again IS IL pointed OUT lHdt
tly-swatting is splendid exercise.
ACCORDING TO UNCLE ABNER.
Anne Hilliker asked LATE Purdy If
LATE ever ketched his wife f1irtin' and
Late said: Yes, that's the way 1 did
ketch her."
When Rem Binks goes away to a
strange town visiting the first thing he
does is to end pitcher cards to all his
friends and then hen he gets that all
done he just about mas time to catch
the train back home.
Hold Peters says he wouldn't trade
places with job d. Rockefeller, and
fnasmuch as Holds place is only about
10 acres. 1t doesn't look, by gee, as
though he ever will.
Some years there amt nothin' per-
tickler wrong with the peach crop ex-
ceptin' that there amt no peaches.
If there is anybody outside of the
states prison who hasn't been mem
toned as a presidential possibility. now
seems to be his time to get busy.
What has become of the old Teller
who used to train his whiskers?
1t seems to be an ever break now
whether the young man goes into
vaudeville or into the insurance bust
ness.
Eli Higgins has bought a clay farm
which is so hard that he has to shoot
the seeds into it with a 22-caliber rifle,
by gum.
Miss Amy Stubbs. our village mil
liner, Is wearin' a genuine Paris hat,
because h made 1t herself.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alb Hicks expected to
buy q touring car this summer, but
on account of circumstances they nave
decided to have q little runabout. They
don't know whether it will be a boy or
girl.
A woman's smile is gen'ally only skin
deep.
The Hickeyyiile Silver Cornet hand is
being organized for the summer. The
citizens of the village nave dubbed to-
gether and rented a barn nine miles
in the country for the band to practice
in.
The tin peddler had a nav the
other day and the echoes of it have
kept the population of this village
awake nights ever since.
One sign of insanity is fer a Teller
to believe that he kin get a good nights
sleep in a hammock out on the front
porch.
When a writer can't find anybody
else to publish his stuff he gen'ally
himself.
If they are looking for a real dark
horse what's the matter with Jack
Johnson.
Grandpa Ribbons must be a pretty
old man. He avs he can remember
when the men wore shirtwaists in
the summertime.
Hank Purdy has got enough lodge
buttons so that he can wear n every
week day and he wears them all on
Sunday. Hanks candidacy for high
way commissioner Is progressing NICE
ly.
Mrs. Hi Purdy has had electric lights
and q bathtub put in her house and
threatens to wrest the social LEADER
l shin of our town AWAY from Mrs An.