The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-02-08
PASSED BY THE CENSOR
(The Stroller)

(The Stroller)
When said there was nothing to
the New Hoover skirt" hadn't seen
one.
A Leavenworth merchant asked
The Stroller recently if the "Chief
Nut" of Seattle and his "Fellow
Nut" George Burbank of Wenatchee,
paid each others advertising bills.
Yes, once in awhile they do, but if
they ever establish this permanent
rule, Wenatchee people will have to
"Help George" quite bit more than
they do at present. q believe
these two nuts are socialists.)
GLOW can | get some free adver-
tising?" writes social belle from
Monitor. 1t can't be done-I've
been trying the same thing all my
life. You must pay for everything
worth while these days.
"Where is the Sob-writer that
used to write the "Gray Hawk" coll
umn in the Seattle Star, asks Jake
Garretson. All! echo seems to an
swer, where is he?
"Rioting among German people"
| is headline in all papers. Coming
events
"Most people have never heard of
right and left hose" writes a critic
| in the Observer, the weekly theatre
cal and social review of Spokane.
That may be a critics viewpoint,
but from the standpoint of an cob
server" they all look alright.
"Leavenworth editor elopes with
Western beauty" is yellow journal
headline. Don't get excited like I
did when I first read it. This was
down in Kansas.
"Women rob store of mems pants"
is headline in Seattle P.-I. They
must have been robbers.
A man here recently told me that
"he walked in the back door of
saloon in Everett with Is cents and
came out three hours later with 800"
I knew I was wrong somewhere, I've
always gone in the front door.
evil give nine sons to Uncle
Sam" is Portland Telegram news
item. Twentieth century philan
thropy.
"Once wealthy now seeks job" is
headline in Echo. This was an err
ror, it should have read: "Once job
less now seeks wealth." That's enuf
to fire a headline writer over.
Tom Pipkin wants to know if we
are going to sue the Seattle Pr. for
infringement of copyright" as he
tells us they have been publishing
some of the Stroller's stuff in their
paper. mo Tom we are not. The
Stroller should feel lucky if they
don't bill him for the space they
used in printing it.-Ed.)
"More than 500 was cleared
from a Poor Married Man" is news
item in the Lincoln County Times.
wonder what they assess single
men at over in Davenport. 1t is
| important that I should know.
"Wife's Son Shoots Aunt's Step
brother!" shrieks the New Orleans
Item in red type. Quite an item.
(also a problem.)
"Take me back to the shack where
the black-eyed susans grow" is gen
orally believed in Seattle among the
'high-brows' to be Hi ellis slogan
in his campaign for reelection.
I'm going to write to the German
Embassy and ask them how to pro-
nounce the name of that Restaurant
guy in Wenatchee. I've tried
sneezing. And I don't speak very
good English as it is.
The famous Russian novelist Max
i'm Gorky's real name is Alicksei
Mo vi,,oov;tcb piachkovt Can Won
blame the Stroller for using a
pseudo?
Intelligence, not disposition, make
happiness" says Laurette Taylor,
well-known Theatrical star. She's
wrong. Look at some of us.
"Silly Sonnets" is title of Spo-
kane debutante's contribution to Chi
cago society magazine. Probably
La,. 1;fo ctorxy n, coppaf form