Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-02-07

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MY LADY'S HAT.
\ little bunch of bent and battered
felt:
A Quarters worth of lace that's hard
ly seen;
Two rooster feather stuck up on the
top:
A bunch Of artificial grapes between,
A paper rose or two pinned on the side.
A silver buckle. value 10 cents;
A velvet ribbon hangin' down behind
The whole thing made "regardleSs OF
expense
The thing looks like Il soup plate up
III down.
aft.
Looks dropping like and wilted. from
The hole effects enough To drive
n daft.
A man should beat a sewing basket
rntil 1T looks like nothing ON this
earth.
And trim it up and make his wife-a
hat,
For then he'd surely get his moneys
Bill for
Her bonnet,
Ten plunks
DoggOne it.
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THE HICKEYVII4LE GU ARTt:TTf.
We're pretty fond of music here i'm IL
town. you kin bet:
Us folks just u to listen to- the Hick-
eyville quartet.
There's nothing that kin e them amy
time or any place.
When Elmer Sphinx sings tenor and
Hank Tumms hits up his bass.
And Ezra Homes sings baritone just
like IA house afire.
And Second Tenor Higgins tWangs as
sweet as any Tyre:
The them boys get To hittin' up the
chords. We've got a hunch
No opry in %creation can lay over that
there bunch.
Some folks say that a Niger
wont steal,
But | caught two in my corn tiel.
One had a shovel the odder
had "a hoe.
III that amt stealing. I'd like to
Way down yonder in de corn fiel.
Their harmonies are splendid. sound
just like a barber shop.
And when they get to goin' 1t is hard
to make them stop.
When they first started singin' we all
thought they were in line
To get a dandy high toned job with
Oscar Hammerstein.
u helr voices all are good and strong.
hen the :stng with n will
You gen'ally can hear 'em clear from
here to- Purdyvills.
The Silver COrnet band can't hold a
candle to them boys.
In shape or form when 1t comes down
to maxim noise.
y care not for the stars that
shine.
dare not hope to e'er be thine:
only know / lO-O-o-o-o-o-ove
I4ov muh-and the wur-r-r-r-ld
is mine.'
They never got a real swell chance to
travel much until
They got a weeks engagement with a
show called "Vaudeville."
They went and rented four dress suits,
the very proper thing.
made a great big hit until they
started in to sing.
TWas then they got buck fever bad
and how their voices shook.
When they'd no more than started,
Amos Higgins got the hook.
The manager babe them goodbye to
their intense surprise
And they came marching home again.
upon the railroad ties.
"FareWel-l-l-l-l. Farewel-l-l-l-l.
My own true love.
"Farewel-l-l-l-l. Farewel-1-l-l-l.
MY own. Farewel-l-l-l-l-l-l-l."
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THE TURN OF COLUMBUS.
OF course. the Ananias club. on ac-
count of the campaign o member
ship conducted by a famous American
colonel 10 already overcrowded, but the
will have to squeeze along
just q little bit and make room for
Christopher Columbus. or rather the
shade of Christopher. for Columbus
personally. It will be remembered.
to his reward some time ago.
The name of Mr.. Columbus was not
presented by the colonel. who had done.
80 much to make the Ananias club a
organization. but rather by
Frenchman named Henry Vignaud.
He presents Mr.. Columbus qualifica-
tions for membership in two handsome
Olumes containing a thousand pages
each. AS a committee. OF. one, NJ. Wig
maud has spent 40 years in looking up
record. He says in his work
Columbus In q liar and that he
hardly ever told the truth about him.
self. but b q his reputation IS the dis
coverer Of America has been 30 great
nobody has ever had hardihood
to openly doubt his word.
OF course. Columbus did q rather in
thing in some way when he
discovered America. If he had left 1t
undiscovered the rest OF the world
would have been spared 9 lot Of worry
n activity. but It seems q bit late
TO. him on the carpet for 1t. The
charges that Columbus. was q liar. will
create little excitement on this side OF
the water. Whether or not he was q
liar, America was discovered by some