The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-10


the money that gave.
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We like to shoot ducks, but the
ard knows we hate to dress" them.
Better be polite to every boy you
meet. He might be your colonel some
day.
The allies want victory. The Ger
mans want peace. Both wishes shall
be fulfilled.
When the walking baby'r "didy"
draps down around its feet II is more
Of a handicap than a humiliation to
the baby.
Talking around among the new
draft reeistrants. one finds many are
fair. fit and forty, and few are faint,
fat and fabby
The time wife thinks the least Of
husband is when she asks him what
he wants her to get for dinner and he
says. "Just anything"
Don't stop in the middle Of your
Liberty bond negotiations to talk over
the new developments in the war sit
uation. Marshal Foch isn't.
The fact that some Of our great
men studied at night indicates that
there wasn't much doing in the com
munities in which they lived
We received rush letter the other
day having been mailed last March.
The letter had been so rushed that the
envelope was almost worn out.
Bulgaria is willing to give up, if
only Uncle Sam dictates the terms.
II is something to have the reputation
of Uncle Sam in this present world.
By cutting out Bulgaria, the Allies
have performed rather an important
operation upon Mittleuropa. Bulgaria
was about where Mitteleuropa's APP
pendix would be.
~ tried to enlist !" said the Stacker,
"but Uncle Sam wouldn't have me.
VIII your mix" said the girl who
reads the papers. "You sound like an
Austrian peace note"
Did you ever put hot potato in
your mouth and roll it from cheek to
cheek, while there was company at
he table? Well, that is the way the
kaiser is beginning to feel.
A boy who was trapper before he
vent into the army, upon arriving
n France wrote to his old fur buyer:
Keep me posted as to the market
,rice on black skunk hides. ] expect
o get the kaiser's."
The boys in France are moving up.
\ soldier boy writes home, dating
lis letter not Somewhere in France
nut cat Fritz's Front Door" and he
night have said back and side doors,
90.
Old Bill Misgivens thinks it is
God joke about people in this coun-
ry thinking they have Spanish in
uenxa. "Here the paper says, says
q. chat an Italian doctor has had
he influenza isolated away over there
n Italy all the time"
q = 4
Health authorities urge everybody
o combat Spanish influenza by re-
from sneezing. coughing
pitting or kissing. One may stop
oughing and splitting by proper exer-
Use of will power, but the Their two
ffenses are more or less Involuntary
Uncle Bill, hearing an explosion IN
he immediate neighborhood, said to
lis small nephew, sitting in the mo-
Or car beside him: Get out, Jimmy
nd look at the tire and see if It is
lat" at looks pretty good, SAID
jimmy, upon inspection; tits only Nat
n the bottom side"
al know what the preacher meant
then he spoke of the lay members
his morning" remarked little Con-
tant on his way home from church.
What did he mean, dear?" queried
is mother. "He meant poultry, an
wered little Constant 81 heard him
ell pap the other dag that there was
lot of old gossiping hens in his con-
regation.'
A l.,.to ,.;rt 81 q anfared "A store and