South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-17
INLSHAWAKA GENERAL NEWS
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mention the matter because this is
friends We should hate 10 see hook
ed because Of carelessness la
making returns.
Mr. Hoover says we may eat lamb
and mutton on meatless days. Sure,
provided. OF course. that the butch
ers serve lamb and mutton and not
ordinary sheep meat.
From the way the school teachers
are rushing to the business colleges
IL looks as if before long the schools
are 10 have time Of il finding good
teachers. There is not a class Of
public servants 50 brutally under
paid as are the teachers Of the
Mishawaka public schools It's no
wonder they high kick.
The dry law will probably go into
effect in two weeks time. This is
pretty fair notice 10 all citizens who
contemplate getting fanged by =
snake during the coming summer.
There is no town man or wom-
an. boy or girl, who is too good to
help the farmers produce the crops
TO feed the armies. the nation AMI
the allies or 10 harvest those crops
when they shall have ripened. Real
patriotism doesn't balk at the bless
ed sunshine or the refreshing rain.
But" writes a big strapping high
school lad the farmers won't feel
you enough grub TO keep life in
your body" He says he worked on a
farm as long as he could stand it
last summer. and claims that he
was all but starved for the want Of
nourishment. He is willing to
try il again-provided the gov
eminent or some once i'm authority
will guarantee he'll get decent food
and enough Of it.
Some of the farmers around this
neck of she woods will have to be
severely chastised one of these days.
It's certainly coming 20 them.
A New York man was convicted
for assault and battery because he
forcibly kissed his own wife. II II
was a limburger kiss he ought to
have been fined. but if it was a Penn
township onion kiss the lady ought
to be ashamed of herself. She ought
TO eat an onion and encore him.
After hearing that concert in the
Presbyterian church the other night
we are forced to admit there is more
music in Mishawaka than We had
ever dreamed of.
New York is threatening an up
| rising against the table d'hote."
The table d'hOte" may have its
! faults. but il is about the only thing
that even resembles a square meal
fellow can get for six bits now
adays.
with potatoes so cents a bushel
and fresh laid eggs at so cents in
Mishawaka. there will be an add
tional incentive to subscribe to the
next Liberty loan.
Instead of asking for the right to
| vote in the primaries, why do no:
! the suffragets ask the legislature u
| provide tor an election 20 determine
whether the women, q years old
and over. really desire the ballot?
! Isn't this Col. S. S. Mcclure WHIT
is going to speak in South Bend this
week, the same individual who was
run out of England on account OF
his war views? We trust Tom Bran
don will listen well. and have a
long and sharp hat pin ready in case
of emergency.
And now. South Bend wants to
deprive Mishawaka of the honor Of
having first suggested the formation
OF home guard companies through
out the country Early last May the
Mishawaka page of The News-Times
carried an interview with A. G.
Haslanger in which the latter made
| the suggestion that a company OF
home guards be formed. A clipping
OF the interview was sent 10 Wash
ington. and three weeks afterward
the movement throughout the coun-
~ was started. II you don't believe
this, ask Congressman Barnhart.
Herrburt bring me ma bawsket,