The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-09-05

e her. Why, sab, last night we spuri-
| ated for mo- dan two hours bout a
\ passage in de Scriptures, and endurin'
E of dat period de lady didn't call me a
black fool mo- dan bout leven times.
She sho' is losin' her ginger"
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The slogan adopted at the Congress
of Allied Women in Paris is high and
! fine and big:
Believe Victory!
Think Victory!
Preach Victory!
Live Victory
! But the stuff that makes victory is
in the wild new slogan from the
trenches:
He'll, Heaven or Hoboken by Christ
mas!
Mister Lali House, San Francisco,
Calf. Dear Fren: get the valva
switch by frum you alrite, but why
for gosh sake you doan send me no
handel. loose to me my customer
sure ting 700 doan treet me rite. is
my money not so good to you as the |
otha fello. waite 10 days and my |
customer he boiler for water like the |
devil for the valva. you doan send me
the handel pretty quick send her
bark and order some valva from
Kraine Companee. Good by, your
Antonio Scalaminto Dutri Since
write thees fine the gol burned han
del in the box excuse to me.
A defeated candidate in the primary :
election gave the following inventory
of his campaign losses: "Lost four
months and 23 days canvassing; lost :
1349 hours of sleep thinking about
the election; lost 43 acres of alfalfa
and a whole potato crop. Lost two
front teeth and lot of hair in per-
sonal encounter with opponent. Do
mated $66 to various church socials.
Gave away two pairs of suspenders,
calico dresses, 5 dolls and 10 baby
rattlers. Kissed 1875 babies, kindled
Ia kitchen fires, put up eight stoves,
,ut IA cords of wood, carried "a buck
Its of water, picked 20 bushels of
peaches, walked 4046 miles, shook
lands 9086 times, told 10000 lie
md talked enough to make in print
900 volumes the size of the patent
'ffice reports. Attended 16 revival
meetings., was baptized four different
lines by immersion and twice some
thei' way; contributed $50 to fore,rn
MISSIONS, made love to grass Wild
WIS, got dog bit 80 times and taan
.ot defeated, b'gosh.'
Speaking further of Archimedes
remarked Old Bill Mis-
ivens, maybe you never heard of
is invention for circumventing mos
uitoes. There was big pond near
here Archimedes lived and it was
lie worst kind of mosquito breeder,
most as bad as the Blockhouse
below Emmett. There were
osquitoes along that pond nearly
5 big as English sparrows. When
ley got to humming all together it
FUNDED like the beginning of a thun-
sr storm. Archimedes invented
mosquito trap and sleep
e blanket. The top of the blanket
as smeared with mixture some-
ing like this stuff they put on fly
lper so that when a mosquito lit on
his feet would stick fast Then to
ep them from dragging the blan-
It off him Archimedes had straps
the under side of it so that he
uld fasten himself inside. In way
at blanket was success and then
ain in a way it wasn't. Archimedes
Is heavy sleeper and the first
ght he strapped himself in his doc
red blanket the mosquitoes were es-
cially bad. The fact was that Ar
imedes had mixed the sticky stuff
tn some sort of drug that was es-
cially pleasing to mosquitoes. 1t
ielled something like human being
10 was perspiring freely. Archi-
,des had scarcely dropped off asleep
fore the mosquitoes began to come.
ey came in families, by regiments,
d by brigades, until there wasn't
1t anywhere on that blanket that
Int have a mosquito fast on it.
en- something happened that Archi-
DIES hadn't looked for. The boss of
, mosquito tribe was there and he -
yanized his forces so that they all sur
gan to pull together. They just q h