Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-01-10

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Guess the whole floating populact
as we'll as the 1Oating vote must have
been out asking n drink when Hank
Timms was elected a member of thu
villag board. 1t was the biggest sur.
prise OF the day. 1t is getting SO now.
adays that anybody car get elected
whether he pay his subscription to
the home paper or not. He claims to
be u friend of labor. He certainly il
for he just dotes on having his wife
take in washing.
Uncle Ezra Harkins a down to the
city on the excursion Sunday and q
Teller sold him a package OF bird seed
for seed. Bein' kind of near
sighted Uncle Ezra didn't read the
b until he Il sowed the seed IN
II windO box. Guess he expects to
raise q crop of orioles.
4. Egbert Peavey has gone to the
a cray"n portrait company II he can
get it.
There WAS. quite an accident at lib
bits grocery last week Tuesday. Hank
Tumms dropped u cigar stub in a box
of celluioid collars n they exploded
with terrific force. Tibbitt's lost part
OF his whiskers. which was the pride
of Hickeyville. but is convalescent at
this writing. No insurance.
1t always makes me sore to see al
old woman with paint on her face and
false hair walking down the street car
rying a pink parasol.
Old Man Purdy claims eve since he
had the hip disease he has been q
hypnotist.
A folding chair busted down at
James Whimpley's funeral last Thurs
day and Grandpa Bibbins was let
down ON the 1oor with a dun s%iokening
thud. Everybody had to laugh. There
is a place to do cOntortion acts, but it
ia not at a funeral.
Ther vas II movin' picture show
here last week. Ii WAS a real nlovin'
picture show, all right. for it kept
right on movin' after staying here one
evening.
Miss Amy Pringle. our popular and
accomplished milliner. a engaged Il
new trimmer and h millinery en-
pol'ium is now the popular rem
devoo i'm the town for young men.
Haven't learned her name vet, but she
comes from over West Hickeyville way.
Mrs. Ye Editor has a new machine.
IL is not Il Frankling or Packard. but
IA Wheeler & Wilson.
MIR. 4 Mrs. Anson Frisby has got Il
new three-legged piano from the city.
She says it liz Il grand piano and may
be II is. but we can't tell until we
hear IT play. 1t has got a pianola at
tachment. Anse ran a porous plaster
through the pianola the other night
instead of the roll. which hadn't came
vet. and the pianola played a hot tune.
Must have been a mustard plaster.
n first Opry Of the season showed
at Tibbitt's hall last Thursday night.
II was u very suspicious occasion and
polite society turned out en- masse.
opry was East Lynne" which is
one OF the best known of the musical
comedies which have appeared in New
IAEk RnSfnNn aud Kalamazoo orA
other large cities. Our dramatic critic
is not on duty today. being at home
doing the. washing. There was one re-
grcttable feature about the entertain
'nent. The audience threw eggs at the
villain. who was quite badly injured.
a man hasn't the right to throw
cggs If he wants to. That is one of
our constitutional rights. but a line
should be drawed. Willie Tumms,
pitcher of the home team, threw hard
boiled eggs.
friends are sending fruit to Grand
ma Virgins who is very poorly at this
writing. We Editor sent a can of
squash. She is expected to pass away
soor. Hank Tumins says William lib
pitts, the grOceryman, ought to have
II leather medal for putting that pat
ent wire cover over the cracker barrel
and locking the blind robbins IN in a
OoSh kIS counter, HANK
spends his time in Ezra Bibbins' har-
ness Shop these days instead Of the
grocery.
When it gets SO Ye Editor of this
paper has got to borrow a chew of to-
nacco from his society editor and wear
the devils s~uspenders to a church So
ctal 1T ought 70 be q sufficient hint 70
n delinquent subscribers. A few first
Class funerals would do this town good.
= postal card arrived at the post
oIfice last week o Miss Angora Bibbe.
Inere IL no such person here that we
KNOW OF. but the card says q young
man Will call on her here at no dis
coming 70 town. We hope
not. for there m enough trimmere
here now. One Of them trimmed re
Editor out OF 400 for his wife'e bum
nit and then refused to take an adv.
In h paper.
are back from West Hickeyville. Mr..
Hudd expects soon to accept q lucra-
tive position with . lightning rod con-
cern. That II he viii accept It if he
can get II. Hank Tumms nays old
Man Hicks h the best horse shoe
pitcher n this town. Guess Hicks
must nave e mortgage on Hanks place
him these days. There are no grass
w1dders In this town. but there are
enough sod widders to make up for
the deficiency.
b are q lot OF expert hammer
,throwers among the danes Of the
polite society livee on g0saik. Il q
getting % the editor o. Thu paper
can't come out OF = Sunday with :
new pair OF pants unless every widow
IN h town. ora1o. cod and clover, q
vel az Al the old maads. scctety buds,