The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-06-14
Tales of the Town
A LIBERTY BOND.

Buy them Liberty Bond!
r Your friend and your neighbor,
a Join with them and labor
i With fervor and loyalty fond,
To put the loan over,
q While the lads toss the clover, the
l. farmers plant plenty of corn,
= And the flag in its beauty smiles down
. on your duty in the kiss of the
! winds of the morn!
When you've bought for your sister,
Your wife and your mother,
There's your sweetheart, you've miss
ed her,
Go purchase another,
Buy all that you can with will
Get up early and buy them,
Tell your neighbors to try them,
It's the heart of your country their
sale will make strong
AS it goes forth to battle where busy
guns rattle and the right strikes
blow at the wrongl
If you are tempted to swear, say
"By-buy bond"
Love in cottage is a splendid thing
until the young couple sees larger
house
Ty Cobb should be made to enlist
with the navy. He might help to steal !
a submarine base.
1t is either farm, finance or fight,
and maybe all three of them before
this cruel war is over.
Among the other disappointments
may be listed visit to the old home
town after one has been away a de-
cade or two.
A number of fellows who used to
fill up on bad whisky and trouble
seem to have forgotten that such
things were ever necessary.
A woman's organization known as
Daughters of the Flag" has thrown
"do your bit" into the discard, and
adopted for its slogan "Not your bit,
but your best"
While Spain continues on friendly :
terms with Germany, it may tell the
kaiser few points of interest con-
corning the American army and navy
as a fighting force.
& 4 &
81 got an ink spot on my brand new
SO crepe de chine waist. Can it be
asks young lady read
err. Easily. Put Liberty Bond but t
ton over the spot. n
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The gentlemen in charge of the rev. r
enue bill at Washington have an h
nounced that it is their definite pur- .
pose to put special tax of some kind
On newspapers, probably on the
ground that they are luxury A lot
If publishers long ago found them to
,e becoming more and more a luxury ii
Z 4 & II
"Hut! tutl" demonstrated the book II
gent, addressing young Bill Misgiv- II
ms, who was maltreating the baby II
"You should not slap
nd kick your little brother that way"
HUH" was the reply. "Pve got
'lenty more if l wear this'n out
here are Ia of US children"
Women who wear overalls or other
pparel which has until recently been
onsidered the exclusive property of
ian, should be careful where they
hoose to wear them. The dispatches /
I'll of riot that was recently started /
| ladies' dressing room when one
their sex appeared wearing a suit :
the popular overalls, and narrowly
'caped being mobbed before the wom-
! discovered that she was a woman.
A Jewish wedding was about to II
Ike place, and everybody, including
lie rabbi, had assembled, when sud-
,nly the bridegroom shouted: 81
ust be going--I must be goingl"
But you cannot" said the friends. H
think of what you are doing" "But II
must" said the bridegroom, "for l
we left my safe openl" "Then why
ouble, Isaac?" said one. "We are
here"
= = 2 III
Canned church services will be next. H
lie suggestion has been made that
2 little cross roads church, by tax
: advantage of the photograph, H
aid offer its members Sunday
'rning sermon by a $4,000 preach H
prayers by another $4,000 preach
and hymns sung by three or four
oists, whose combined fee for one
ming of opera might exceed $4,000. II
ese canned services could be passed / !
'und like the books of circulating Il
rary c
The pale faced passenger looked !.
of the car window with exceeding II r
crest. Finally he turned to his II t
innate. "You likely think never c