The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-24
Ticks From cb,rgcr Ridge.

II you will give me space In your
dear old columns ] will give you the
latest newses from this place.
The health of the community is
very good at present
The order Of the day seems to be
shocking corn. hunting 'possums, and
knocking the kaiser
Right much concern Is fels IN the
recent and lamented combine of the
iitney drivers They met up over the
X-roads General last night and decid-
ed that they might as we'll get theirs
since plucking suckers was being
executed with ease all around them.
They passed a resolution to raise their
fare to seven cents and now the shoe
shops are so busy n fellow has to
wait all day to get his shoes half
soled. ChigEer ridge aint no place
for such 2. unnatriotic move, There
is talk amongst the Town Council
men Of passing a counter-attack not
allowing them to call themselves jit-
neys no more. because you see. Scion,
seven cents amt no jitney.
The First National almost sold an
other Liberty Bond last week but AT
the last moment Lem Gill decided to
pay his grocery Till
Mrs. Roscoe Rane got letter last
week from her boy in France what
had been opened and read and all
marked up The sneak was named
Censor and he had nerve to write on
the envelope that he done the deed
Ms. Bans is going to write TO the
gov. at Washington and find out his
initials and have him prosecuted to
the limit of the law for tamperine
with SIGH matter
The local Ladies Foreign Aid has
drawn up papers expressing their ap-
probation TO the Russian gov. for
sinking them Is German boats. That's
the way Chigger Ridge does things.
Scion, you can believe me or not.
but 1t is so dry around this place
that they done stop building tails on
tadpoles. There is some talk that
the gov. is going to pass a law maxi
ing people refrain from even making
pot-licker. Next thing we know they
will be taking the ticker out OF lie
oriee. The Dutchman what used to
run that Joint on Main st SAYS he
tust as soon be in Germany again.
Herman Thomas the prominent cub
reporter of the Pepper Hill Echo, liz
writing a column Of so-called hui
morous stuff for the John Marshall
high school. He says he didn't know
there was 20 much real pleasure in
handling a pair OF scissors before OF
&'Nt9N' htS1 iiAuai IS ct tile use "heES
advice won't soak In, but IL he is real
" handy with the scissors we suggest
the tailoring business as a preference.
The Dutchman says that there LIZ a
meager chance OF Germany winning
and II they do that he is going to
get III touch With Kaiser Bill and
have him appoint William Randolph
Hearst war mayor of n. Y.
We had our first meatless day down
| here on the Ridge Tuesday and 1t
don't seem much sense IN eating eggs
at fifty c. p dz. and refusing liver at
| fifteen c. the III, and steak at thirty
c. the ID
Them drivers OF the Zepplins what
lit in France might have said that
they come down thinking they WAC
home. but from down here on the
| Ridge II looks mighty funny You
can, blame them though most any
body would want square meal In
three years.
There's a pretty good joke going the
! rounds now. A fellow asked another
man If the gov, had put tax on
milk, and he said no, the datrynaen
| water thei. own stock or course,
! that Us Just a. Joke and amt no harm
meant to nobody. Well. we VIII close
now wishing you and your many
! readers as much success as could he
expected times Ike these.
r s H.