The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-05-30

] barber chair the war soon will be
Z over.
: There are notices and good ones ga
lore,
But this one will help win the war:
Buy Thrift Stamp day,
! To keep the kaiser away,
, And also the wolf from the door.
A man asked one of our citizens the
other day to tell him the shortest way
to the hospital, and was advised to
get out in the street and boiler "Hur-
ran for the kaiser"
"What would you do if you had
twice as many children?" asked a
neighbor of Old Bill Misgivens. "Don't
know yet" replied Old Bill, who is al
ready blessed with ID olive branches.
A drug to abate the pangs of hum
ger is the latest food substitute in
troduced by German kultur. Many
drugs with that property are known
in America, but we label the bottle
with skull and cross bones
It was desirable, of course, to in
scribe the new Russian flag with
something short, simple and easy to
read at distance. So after mature
deliberation they settled upon this:
"Rossiskaya Sotzialyitscheskaya Fed
erativnaya Sovietskaya Respublika."
At times things happen which lead :
us to believe there still is such thing :
as retributive justice. For instance,
while ball player was holding out :
for more money so he could afford to
the government heard about it
and put him in Class 1. :
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A German farmer in Australia had :
l rather delicate wife who worked
lerself to death in few years. At
er the funeral a neighbor was con- :
loling with him on his great loss. :
YAH" said August, "she vas a good :
bit too light for my :
work."
A farmers hens kept looking down
earted and moped about the yard +
nd wouldn't lay an egg. He bought
rooster and put him in the yard with
he hens and now they sing all the
me and seem happy. Living single
fe doesn't seem to be the happiest
fe, even for the hen tribe.
4 &
A Sunday school teacher, who be-
ewes in making practical and timely l
ppication of the days lessons, was
yelling on the gathering up of the
2 baskets of fragments "You see,"
lie said, "that Jesus and the disciples
elieved in saving" And the small
oy chirped up: $50 does Hoover"
When dad makes his deposit on pay
Az he feels that he is one of the
INKS leading customers and he does
t mind asking for new checkbook,
1T when he passes the bank few
Tvs later he thinks the clerks are
oking at him and laughing about
S little balance.
another valuable point about this
r." said the sales agent, sis the fact
at if it is left alone over night after
wing been wrecked the scattered
rts will crawl to their proper places
ID unite like the fragments of
int snake" Puzzle: Find the name
the car of which the salesman was
eaking.
A preacher was making calls on
ospective members. AS he knocked
the door of one home, he heard
ich quarreling within. "Are you the
lster of this house?" the preacher
,asantly asked. "Well," snorted the
m, my wife and | were just trying
settle that question. What do you
|? Enlarged pictures or cheap mag
?"
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A little boy in church was very
ch agitated because a woman who
near him in church made no signs
putting coin in the collection box.
It as the usher with the collection
arrived at the woman's elbow the
lie fellow desperately handed her
money envelope and said to her;
ere, lady, you can put this in the
lection box, for | can crawl under
seat"
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he school teacher had punished
nmy so often for talking during
DOL, and the punishments had been
arently without effect, that, as
resort, she decided to notify Tom
s father of his sons fault So,