The Washington herald., 1917-08-02
Good Morning, Judge &
Human Interest Stories sof ..,,,,,, Q. Z !.
Police Court Happenings. prax1Ns %

, man has to eat and told Tom that
he mustn't think Of eating the other
mans meat. especially when Il cost
20 much money. But Tom had an
excuse. Some one threw the meat
at him, he iyaid, and he caught It and
like the MN who was AslGed 10 .hSyd'
the baby he Just naturally hung opto
IL until he was relieved or the weight
by q kind policeman The leaves Will
be falling when Tom he's served his
fsixty-dsys %.i- .g.5s -
Badda neessses, Tssy.
Some ''punkins'' got Tony Prestia in
a little scrap. Tony has a garden.
He does not like to hear people sex-
sggerate. as,it gets on his nerves and
he loses his temper and fights. Cor
nelius Dement, has a garden too. and
he wants everybody to know It, and
never hesitates to spring the fact on
1.-THE unsuspecting that he kas. coolies
Eof "punkin4 in his smallsgarden. This
Is what Tony seys. absat him. Cor
nelius. came into Tonyis shoemaker.
shop and began to tell; rim 4 yarn
about the wonderful pumpkins he has.
land Tony said. 'Ahma too beeze to
| leesten." -. ~ 80 -
Cornelius kept up and Tony landed
on him behind the ear, putting his
Cornelius got sore at ethis kind OF
Treatment from the .'dtaiiana la gent"
CTony said he was this), and got a
warrant for him. So the court told
Tony to. shell out ten American dol
lars. - -.
II A kissing Game.
II 1t hadn't been hot enough to melt
a brass monkey Tuesday night Percy
Washington wouldn't have been put
in the cooler, Percy rooms on " street
| somewhere. and so does a girl on
whom Percy is a little sweet. When
he came home that night he found
everybody had gone out to get a few
breaths of air. He shut the door
after him and locked II. He had a
reason. shortly the girl came arouud
and wanted to get in. "If you gimme
la kiss I'll let you in." Percy shouted
through the keyhole.
CANT be did," said the girl. "a
am spectacle" OF course Percy
wouldn't have done such a thing IL
he had not at FIRST visited the citadel
Of the sacred stein and here was
the cause of the trouble. The girl
appealed to the police and Percy read
the riot act to the bluecoat, inquirers
and he was gently removed and de-
posted in cell. He didn't get kissed
but he got fned IS. -s-'-'
| Ed. Was. No Quaker.
Nocntime on Tuesday Ed Clowden
was hungry. Like the Texas coloreo
man. 1t was dinner time for other peo-
pie but just pain old II o'clock for
him. He was sitting in park op-
posite Providence Hospital and saw a
wagon standing near with a bag of
oats on the seat. Now no one means
to insinuate that Ed wanted to eat
those oats. but as an enterprising ma n
he, intended to rob the horse and sell
them to get the wherewfth to eat.
The bag was quite heavy and Eo
rested himself People In that neigh
borhood are mot blind and several, OF
them saw Ed.strugsling down on the
wa gon with the -oatssand make away
with them. Now Eds excuse was that
he was minding the oats for a
stranger. Judge Pugh hears so many
excuses like this one thatth thought
nothing at all of It and decided that
a month in jail would cure Ed of the
oat-stealing habit.
No Wonder Milk II Up-
No one questioned the purity of the
milk that. Elmer Thorne delivers To