The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-11-15

, Can dance the SaddeSt hours away
Old Ladies' feet drag heavily;
He droops beside an empty chair;
He sleeps outside fast-closed door
And dreams his master still
there.
! 1t is the things we hope to get tina
make life worth while.
There should be high tree fol
every case of high treason.
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When two boys play together the
smaller one pulls the wagon and the
larger boy rides in it.
THANK goodness" exclaimed a
woman, "you still can buy consider
able salt for a dollar"
If you pay your debts you are not
necessarily christian, but a real
Christian will pay his debts.
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If BARRIERS didn't have to eat they
would become rich; there always is a
rush on when they are away at meals.
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Why is it that when you get more
for what you have to sell you COM
plain because you have to pay more
for what you have to buy?
Thara opoa uac IN NOII Dool,V \
Proctor,
Who got sick and sent for a doctor,
But when he did see,
Twas lady M. d.
He got up and outside he locked her
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what is your solution to the
world problem?" was asked Pat. He
replied, "Well, sor, | think we should
have a world democracy-with an
lrishman for king"
"The ghost of bad luck has always
followed me-" said Old Bill Misgiv-
ems. "Once | bet man he couldn't
put his foot in scalding water. /
iidn't know he had cork Leg"
Old Bill Misgivens has figured it
tut that somebody must have swiped
bushel of his potatoes. He says he
planted six bushels and found only |
i've bushels when he dug them a few
lays ago.
The new letter rate brought out
many suggestions. One of the most
'ertinent suggested that everybody
uy Scent stamp instead of a two
nd a one, and thus "save on the
licking"
Gem county is asked to give $1,000
D the Y. NJ. C. A. war work fund.
hat amounts to just about the price
one meal for Gem county. Willing
pass up one meal for the boys 'over
lere?" {
Several years ago an Emmett
Dung man left town for the Pacific
'ast. He came back short time
go and the old home town didn't ;
,em the same to him. He saw all /
IS old girls wheeling baby buggies. I
There is absolutely no accounting 6
IT tastes. We know one young wom- $
! who is trusting her whole heart to I
young man whom the butcher would 9
It trust out of sight with a nickle's a
orth of liver, if there is such a i,
ing. v
An Emmett woman, being asked to g
yn conservation blank seemed dis q
clined. "It's nothing but an agree d
emit that you will save and not n
row away any food" explained the a
'over agent. Throw away food" Il
Piled the woman. "Why, lordy fl
IN, Is starving my rabbits now" lie
Camouflage for conservation of su- m
r is practiced by an Emmett house al
fe. Noting that her husband al al
ys took four spoonfuls of sugar in dc
coffee and would not be content di
tn less than that number, she er
rely placed smaller spoon in the as
gar bowl-and she's getting away ay
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'Uh-well, sah," said the colored ca
'ther to his parson, what rs been it
lcocting in muh mind yuh of late sn
dis: When one O. dem aviations alb
m along in de sky meets an angel m,
he say 'Howdy, sahl Climb in on
cushions and rest yo' wings or
ne acts like these yuh proud peo- ca
wild motor cars, and dess slap on phi