Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-19
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Wear a Smile When You Come In.
By WILLIAM HENRY DIXON.


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Wear a smile when you come in,
Amt nothin' beats friendly grin!
Say, Hello JIM" an "Howdy, jack"
An slap yer comrades on the back
crouch or scowl holds little grace,
smile somehow jes' fits the face.
Amt nothin' beats a friendly grim
Wear smile when you come in!
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Wear a smile an say, "He1loi"
BY gum. I'm glad to see ye Joe!
How's Bill, an Jim, an sister Sue?
An how's the world bin usin' you?
smile somehow jes fits the face, l.
welcome to the oil home place.
Amt nothin beats a friendly grin.
Wear a smile when you come in!
Wear smile an say. 'Hello!"
Seems to please the old folks so;
When you git in from way out west,
A friendly greetin suits EN- best.
Amt nowhere's like the old home place,
smile someway jes' fits the face
Amt nothin' beats friendly grin,
Wear smile when you come in!
(From Hearth and Home Songs'C.
o.
Old glory was 149 years old last week.
Pretty husky chap for that age and looks able
to stand several more battles
A bottle of ginger ale exploded in the hand
of a Chicagoan the other day, the top striking
him in the head and rendering him unconscious.
Those complaining they are not able to buy
anything with kick in it might lay in case
of ginger ale.
In Denver a wife had her husband arrested
because he beat her with a slab of tafy candy.
1t seems you simply can't be sweet to some
women.
The Meridian, Miss, jail has not had
prisoner since Jan. 1, says a dispatch from
that city, which adds that only three meals
have been cooked there since the first of the
year" The taxpayers have right to know on
whom the three spreads were squandered.
o.
Yellow peril note: In an eastern divinity
school there only one graduate this year.
He is a Jap.
John McCutcheon. the cartoonist. few from
Chicago to Perdue the other day. He objected
to landing in an alfalfa field. We should say
that were preferable to dropping in stone
quarry.
trio of fashionabIy dressed young men is
engaged in holding up banks in Indiana. They
ride in an automobile and enjoy the best of
everything that the world affords. and thus far
have managed to keep out of the clutches of
the police Occasionally they take life, but
they don't shoot to kill unless they are COM
PEELED to do so to protect themselves. The
boys merely have adopted the tactics of some
lines of big business, only they do not operate
on so large scale.
The Walnut Growers association is offering
premium Of $4,000 to any one who will in
vent a machine for branding the shell of each
English walnut produced. This sounds might
lily like the approach of another combine
to increase the cost of living. Still we get
along without walnuts if we have to.
One of the Chicago mail order houses did
SIS 600 900 business in Pennsylvania last year
You know Philly is called sleepy town. Really,
the entire state appears to be in a stupor.
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It has been discovered that II year locusts
are good to eat, when fried in butter. The
flavor is described as somewhat like that of
roasted peanuts. The locust may yet become
one of daintiest foods. Some Dig business
scout ought to get busy and establish a locust
farm. 1t may be one of the coming gold mines.
You know what Barnum said.
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The president of China threatened to resign,
but before the announcement he had poll of
parliament taken. This indicated that his res
ignation would not be accepted 1t looks as
if Shin Chang had lead pipe cinch his
job
There are said to be million drug victims
in the United States. That's the number known
to use dope. but the victims are more numer-
ous as the user in some instances is the head
of family.
At Atlantic City mother carried her A.
year-old son air trip. When the plane
landed the youngster sound asleep. Talk
about your "Rock-a-bye on the tree top" When
that kid gets few years older he'll have some
thing to banter his playmates with.
A local doctor advises you to keep smiling
and take his treatments. If you are able to
do the latter you don't need his services. It's
when you cease to smile that you are beginning
to head in the direction of his Office.