The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-05

Tom Cohn, who was very much
a gentleman and man Of great
tact, ordered some wine opened
to cover his hosts confusion. But
the triple joke was not soon for
gotten along Superior street.
Chief of police "Bob' McKer-
cher has attained a national repu-
tation for skill in tracking down
outlaws on snow-shoes. Many
have wondered how a wearer of
the bonny kits ever became so
| proficient in the use of that Can
| adam form of footwear. The
Rip-saw's chief of detectives
thinks he has found out.
The genial chief resides at s11
West Fourth street. His neigh
bors declare that, during the six
years he has lived there, he never
has been caught shoveling snow
off the sidewalk in front of his
house. The people around there
are proud of their clean walks but
chief Bob lets the snow pile up
so deeply in front of his place
that he is compelled to use snow
shoes when entering or leaving
his home. This home study, so to
speak, has made him a master at
snow-shoeing.
The past winter the drifts be-
came 80 troublesome that even
| snow-shoes were not efficient.
Chief McKercher has John Muir
ply for a next door neighbor and
either John Murphy or Mrs. Muir
ply keep their steps and walk
shoveled off just as faithfully as
they 60 to early church.
For many days the resourceful
chief came out his front door,
ambled across the Murphy lawn
and then down their clean steps
and walk, out to the beaten path.
This little story illustrates the
saying that ''Where here's will,
here's way
81 see by the papers, said
Dick Ryan to the Strategy
| Board assembled in the lobby of
the New Hotel Saint Louis,
THAT the mattresses at Haley's
hotel were so pretty that the boys
pestered them so badly they
could not work. In self-denfense,
they decided to eat fried onions
but the chef is reported to have
refused to fry them any, there
fore the beauties quit in a
| bunch"
Better be overly handsome
than like an old spinster l knew
down near Bucksport, Maine,"
| spoke up Sam" Chandler.
THAT old dame was so homely
that she had to drink quart of
boneset tea every day to keep
it from striking in and killing
her."
you have seen prettier and
and homelier girls than | have"
declared Frank Heating, "but
the most modest girl l ever saw
lives up Oh Duluth Heights. That
girls so modest that she will not
pass a pile of undressed lumber
| without turning her face away
from it. She refuses to wear un-
dressed kids on her hands. She
will not 60 to bed with a copy
of the Christian Observer in the
room without first blowing out
the light. Can you beat itf"
Il think l can," remarked J.
H. Crowly, as he stroked the new
election hat that he won from
Colonel Littleworth. Down in
Texas where | railroaded once,
there was a girl so very modest
that she would not walk under
the pecan trees in winter because
they exposed their bare limbs
Ring off! ring off" ex-
claimed Charley Moore. "I'l
buy!" whereupon the entire
bunch rambled forth to find
| some buttermilk.
lone Of my Milesian forebears
had landed in New York and was
making his way along the pave
ments with his worldly posses
sions wrapped in big kerchief,'
said Judge James L. Travers to a
group of friends. "A little rum
pus started in the middle of the
street. Handing his budget to an
entire stranger the new arrival on
American soil said, Twill yez
pl ase hould me boodget a bit,
| and disappeared in the midst OF