The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12
ly is no need to search for him IN
the county auditors office.

ly is no need to search for him IN
the county auditors office.
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Commissioner Silberstein may be
keeping an eye on Iron River but it's
a safe bet that he also watches a GER
tain little closet out there in his lux
urious residence.
Now that the city campaign Is over,
perhaps the Boy Engineer can find
time to take lot of city equipment
out of the corroding weather and
tuck it under cover.
The great family journal admits
that Charley Adams is better state
senator than he is a prophet. He
once predicted that the Rip-saw
would not last long.
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It's a great wonder some of these
cocky autocrats do not try to shove
a special bill through the legislature
to keep the Rip-saw from being
printed and circulated.
A Washington letter tells how
former congressman Miller prepared
for a dry national capital by laying
in a stock of booze, but it said moth
ing about any improvements to his
harem.
This great family journal is nego-
tiating for a permanent Herrlngram
service from both st. Paul and Wash
ington, which will enable it to keep
closely in touch with Gov. Burnquist. 5
vice-presidential boom.
It is not believed that there is any
truth in the rumor to the effect that
Gov. Burnquist is trying to SECURE
Claude M. Atkinson to conduct the
publicity end of the Burnqu:stian
vicerpresidential boom.
When U. S. senator Knute Nelson
sees how Gutaf Linquist is coming
along in his mission to make Burn
quist the next vice-president, he must
realize how empty and futile his
own life and political efforts have
been.
Now come the commissioners of
st. Louis county with a determina-
ton of locating the origin of the
October forest fire. What those
salary grabbers do not know about
forest fires might make quite a
book.
There's a bill before the legisla-
ture that makes it compulsory for
a district judge to retire, on full pay.
when 80 years Of age. "That's the
best news I have heard since I became
Major" Warren E. Greene is alleged
to have said.
The old iaaves slowly are dropping
from the auditor:al tree. AS a sort
Of April Fool joke, Black Marin,
aaron of stavenger brother of The
late Kong Olin. was asked to clean
out his desk and say farewell to the
marble-lined courthouse.
Perhaps Noah A. Young will not
resign as superintendent of county
schools, now that the kindly old leg
islature has boosted the salary which
he accepted as satisfactory and, suffi-
cient on November 6.
It is rumored that small fig leaves
will be AL fat for lady members Of
the Duluth Boat Club this season.
Last season, bathing suits as large as
John L. Sullivan's fighting trunks
were required, which greatly imped-
ed progress through the water. &c.,.
When Warren E. Greene recently
visited Duluth on private business,
he wore his natty uniform. One law
yer expressed the opinion that the
absentee county attorney should
wear spurs so as to keep his feet
from slipping off his desk when he
actually is Majoring.
w. A. Cant's job on the district
woolsack does not keep him from
presiding, speaking, predicting, or
even smiling at the other fellows
jokes. Many are wondering If the
Sage of Fond du Lac really is groom
ing himself for congressman Carss'
Job two years hence? There are
some mighty suspicious signs.
County Auditor Bergen must be-
lieve that a bargain is bargain.
November 6, he entered into con-
tract to serve st. Louis county as
auditor for four years at $4,000 a
year. He later spurned all urging
to ask the legislature to make 1t
more. Others in the kindly old court
house have been neither so bashful
nor square with the people.
SOCIALISTS WIN