The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-05-13
Tales of the Town

: If it is anything yoI dc not par
ticularly need the pro abilities are
that you can arrange tn pay FOR it
in installments
Talking about high prices for writ
ers, we know man who received a
dollar word for a piece he wrote
What he wrote was, ''Please remit"
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Here's a plan for the eradication of
dandelions: "Dig the dandelion from
the ground, hang both dandelion and
hole on the fence until they are dry,
then burn them"
During the recent dry spell, ranch
err on Big Willow creek was inter
viewed as to how fishing was in that
stream. He said the creek was so
arid that he could pull up the fish
as he did radishes.
A woman will put her hands in the
suds and sing all day; a man Will put
his head in the "8dds and sing all
night. The woman gets the back
ache; the man gets the AlddcEa. Both
swear off the next day.
"A jingo is one who believes Adj
miral Dewey could take the cruiser
Olympia and the battleship Oregon
and shoot his way through the Darda-
neles in 20 minutes" says an ex-
change, and burned if we don't believe
he could do it.
An enthusiastic motorist, speaking
to her friends in relation to the slow
ness of a certain young man at pro-
posing. "Charlie seems to start easy"
she remarked, "and he speeds up
we'll; but just at the critical moment
he always skids."
The other night at a dinner little {
girl surprised her mother by saying: I
I'm not stuck on this bread" "Mar-
gle" said her mother, reprovingly,
you want to cut that slang out" t
That's a peach of way of correct {
ng the child" remarked the father. $
Il know" replied the mother, "but l q
ust wanted to put her wise" g
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A man went to a neighbor and COM q
'lained bitterly that the neighbours a
hickens had scratched up his garden, I
They weren't mine," said the neigh b
or, coolly "Well, they were some c
ody's, and l saw your chickens over a
a my lot" "They weren't mine," said t.
ne neighbor, with great gravity, "My r
hickens don't scratch" t
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| have seen many signs, quaint and II
therwise in the mining districts of e
he West said a Chicago engineer, h
but it remained for a mining super W
ltendent in Idaho to reach the climax II
sign politeness. "At the entrance ST
the mine over which he is the tc
uiding spirit this man has caused 81
lie following to be posted: please do W
Ut tumble down the shaft" ca
Submarines fall to the bottom of hi
e sea, airships fall to the ground. ne
he air line train falls into the ditch, fo
motor car sometimes climbs tele- st
zone poles and trees, old "Dobbin" tr
ms away. So apparently it is up to tn
fellow who wants to be on the safe co
lie to walk-and that isn't safe, WI
Their, for you may get run over by ar
" of the vehicles. The moral is: be
,on't Worry" DO
Every man whose name is Smith co
lst listen to something like this ev- tie
Y day: $50 your name is Smith, is tn
Har, har, har! Don't you know, til
Used to wonder where all the Smiths sis
me from, until one day l was in co
rtland and saw a sign that read, bu
NTH Manufacturing Company" rec
lore business of making merry.) I
me time a Smith will be arrested tai
: numbering one of these joke So
iths, but if tried by a jury of pa
liths, he will be acquitted and ant
arded a hero medal. wa
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And after all it may be best, just in Ole
happfest, sunniest hour of all the wit
yage, while eager winds are kissing neN
Try sail, to dash against the unseen his
k, and in an instant hear the bill TIT
rs roar above sunken ship. For anc
ether in midsea or 'mong the break tie
of the farther shore, wreck at car
t must mark the end of each and swC
And every life, no matter if its if
,ry hour iS rich with love and aU the