The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-10
Tales of the Town

p ~ hNNh 10 III biiN aEAiNos
The principal difference between the
+, city movie and the one in Emmett i:
one violin.
How would you like to risk your
reputation on one guess year, like
the grounding?
Our idea of a true patriot is man
who can smile while he is writing a
check for his taxes.
| What does it profit a man to live
l01 years in order to brag that he has
never used tobacco.
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A new song, sung to the tune of
"Tipperary," is entitled cts Hard
Way to Tickle Mary"
4 4 4
Cold feet sometimes keep you from
winning, but in the long run they are
likely to save you money.
4 &
The saddest words of tongue or pen
Ito the owner of a motor carr are
these, "Gas is up again."
4 & 4
There are SO Saturday pay days
in the 1916 calendar, which the boss
probably lays on the war, too.
Oh, how hard it is to die and not
be able to leave the world any better
for ones little life in it.-Abraham
Lincoln
They never improved on the potato
as means of keeping the coal oil
from splashing out of the snout of
the can.
Advice is the stuff the banker gives
you when you ask him to extend your
note and add the interest onto the
principal
What animals are found at the
North Pole?" asked the teacher.
'Polecats," promptly responded the
mall boy at the foot of the class.
Probably the most severe shock that
yer comes to woman is when she
earns that most hotel and restaurant
cast is buttered with a paste brush. d
4 4
If there is anything sadder than a 3
eginner on the cornet practicing
Home Sweet Home" as his first les v
on, Old Bill Misgivens says he hasn't g
card it.
This Great Family Guide hasn't had t
wedding to report for two weeks,
ne blame for which probably lays
$50 between feminine timidity and n
asculine obstinacy a
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Show us man who isn't "run" by b.
s wife part of the time and we will N
low you fellow who doesn't amount a
very much. (Note-This ought to W
Iuare up lot of old scores.) st
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The Saturday Evening Post artists M
e nothing if not original. A recent
imber pictured crap game with
e players sitting sedately on chairs. 10
nat must have been hot game. to
A married man remarked the other Ike
y, "Isn't it wonderful how clear and sp
stinct little noises are these wet sa
gifts ?" yes replied another mar tn
ID man. "My wife caught me trying on
sneak in, too"
An Irish surveyor attached to a le
strict which suffered severely from st
DDS posted up this notice in a viii su
&c which lay in valley: "Notice is sa
reby given that when this board is gi
der water this road is impossible" lei
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me wen dressed man OF 1916, say Sl
custom cutters, has 10 suits. If ba
N is well dressed with only 10
is, what will describe the wardrobe
County Attorney Reed who has a ag
ndred or more delinquent tax suits tic
hand. KIN
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'Wud yez LUX at thot!" exclaimed ors
s. O'Toole in just Indignation, as lac
read the sign," Washin' and ironin' bre
lie. Shure, she amt wan bit better "A
n Oh am. Olive got me washin' an an
nin' done, too, but yez don't see me wa
lgin' out no signs brsggin' about me
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teacher asked colored girl her
ne. She said it was Fertilizer" 7
, teacher asked how she happened sto