The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-03-13

4 VatlOn ARMY 70 pIofc IiiaI ~ 10 HOTt
I blessed to give than receive.
Uncle Sam estimates it will take
him rs years to pay off his war debt
Uncle Sam has nothing on US.
Right after the birthday of George
Washington, who never told a lie,
comes the income tax blank and the
assessor.
| II is said Of one buck private that
he took such fancy to his captain
that when they both we're discharged
he gave the captain job.
= = =
They all said, "ShueksI 1t can't be did
He'll fail when he's begun it."
But Bill just rolled up his sleeves, i
Hoped in, b'gosh, he done it,
Men will boiler their heads off be-
cause milk is 10 cents quart, and
they'll pay a bootlegger $40 a quart
without groan. Isn't it funny,
honey?
Some Of our letters go astray in the
mails, but nothing happened to our
income tax blant. II came as straight
as an arrow and with the swiftness
of the eagle.
As most Of the work Of the average
legislature is done in about the last
five days, wouldn't it be good idea
to limit the legislative terms to that
number of days?
Talk to a rabbit fancier few min
ties and you will be astonished that :
lnyone wastes time raising such COM :
'aratively Improbable products az
hickens.
Every transport that brings home :
load of soldiers ought to take back I.
cargo of nuisances, idiots, ignora-
muses. and derelicts who ought never
o have been admitted. And DONE omit
bunch Of hyphenates for the steer
ge.
From perusing auction ads in the
ountry weeklies it may be gathered
hat while a number of Idaho privates,
eutenants and captains are still
'atching the Rhine large and en-
1usiastic majority of the colonies
ave reached home.
GAS | write these lines" said ne
70 cook in letter to his girl-a cook
no was stationed with the Northern
Group of the navy, not far
rom Calais--'I am standing five feet
eep in blood and the corpses Of Ger
ans are floating all around me-
The Overseas club Of London, so the
spatches state, is arranging to have
,nfires lighted round the world on
e night of signing the peace treaty.
inc idea, but we fancy there will be
shortage of fuel in Germany, Aus
ia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Russia.
q 4 q
Two littlo boys were quarreling.
.et's fight it out" said one. al can't
hit you. because my folks would
ID it OUT said the other. How
,uld they find it out?" asked the
st boy. Because they would see
e doctor going to your house." said
0 second boy
Extract from soldiers letter:
lear Ma: have saved little mon
and when | get back home I'm 60
!, to buy me two mules, and name
E of 'em Corporal and the other
.geant; then I'm goin' to lick h--ll
! o both Of EN-"
Hiram, when are you going to pay
It $40 for pasturing your heifer
{ had her now for about ten weeks.
ny, Sam, the critter amt worth
re than $l0.' "Well, Hiram, spos-
| keep her for what you owe me
OF by jugful, Sam. Tell you what
do, though keep her two weeks
re an you kin have her."
q q q
judge was trying a case in which
re was a dispute about water
ply. As he had just partaken Of =
rty luncheon, and counsels argu-
1t was decidedly long winded, he
an to nod suspiciously. All at once
lawyer Numbered out: what we
1t, your honor, is waterw Very
e in mine, please; very little im 9
c" said his honor, suddenly start
up dolls
Ike the key log in jam that holds i'iAu
ntains Of timber back until the nor
! hrolsn an, family !, rr,a,, adde
,eeping six others from moving. 7,
course. it's not the first family's a,
t. They are waiting until the IN n,