The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-12-13

ScaU LABOR on tn6 new concrete DrlQge
across Chester gulch. An endorsement
by organized labor is not needed fol
over three years yet.
Luther C. Harris, a high-brow, silk
stocking lawyer, has charge of the 10
cal Hindenburg drive to smash union.
IN and around Duluth. Tell not the
news to Charley Towne.
Joel Lichten might have done worse
than to wear frock coat, silk hat and
diamond pin in his tie when he went
before Judge Morris for the sweet
boon Of American citizenship.
To man up tree, it looks as if
many of the chappies who are trying
to mob alleged radicals and smash or.
ganized labor merely are trying to pave
the way for Gen. Wood to become pres
ident.
Bert Kribsback gained notoriety, if
notu fame, by building some concrete
bridges. that broke their backs. Nick
Schwartz recently rounded out the rec
ord by nearly breaking the back of
Bert Kribsback.
The Bell telephone interests feel so
cocky over the successful absorption
of the people s telephone system that
steps are being taken to build the local
telephone headquarters as high as the
Tower Of Babel. H..
4 G: Francis Colman, treasurer of the
school board and man who parts his
name in the middle, still carries a rock
N bis pocket TO shy at Messrs. Croft
& -Boerner, official architects for the
board of education.
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Many citizens and voters have their
eyes glued TIGHTLY on the marble-lincd
courthouse. Some are hungry for Of
flee pap and others propose to 60 a bit
further next time in the scrubbing out
Of the noble structure. r..
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Hon. Scion Perrin, judge on the Su-
perior bench in the dear old city of
Superior, shows a skill in splitting his
decisions that would have done credit
70 old Solomon when he was expected
to divide up the baby. az
The doddering bod feels greatly
peeved because he~went to sleep at the
switch and missed that story about the
burglary of the Bee Hive. Eternal
vigilance is the cost of getting the
news when news is news. .-.
Infirmities of age indicate that
Judge Ensign will have to run by
proxy if he aspires to hold his place
on the district bench. May not War
rem E. Greene feel impelled to say:
Father. let me make the arduous race
for YOU e. H..
Modest, timid, retiring women, driv-
en- demented by the struggle for mere
existence. should have decent hospital
accommodations before transfer to the
state mad-house, instead Of being
bunked in smelly blankets in the stem
chy old county Jail: r.
A pernickety dame in the marble
lined courthouse recently nearly had .
cat-fit because she feared the Rip-saw
man might put her German name in
= his old paner." The Rip-saw charges
FOR certain kinds of advertising. there.
fore Die Frau need not have worried.
Those who are not satisfied to sup
port CONGRESSMAN Carss for another
term might do much worse than to trot
mt Col. G. NJ. Atkinson, the Journal
istic genius Of the Richest Village on
Earth. His name is not so suggestive
as that Of the other editor, either.
After three years at Duluth g public
school treasury, Supt. Hoke is plump
ing out like quail in harvest time.
The first year he was here he was so
thin and weak that he sat in the swivel
chair and idly smoked his savannah
cigars all the day long.
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Third assistant county attorney Nc
Dewitt took his oath of office Novem-
Der 4, but he did not report for duty
until Dec. l. Despite that, he pulled
down $3.50 in salary for the time he
was absent. Some boys pick grapes
who do not toll in the vineyard.
A letter that Doc. Schaibly alias
Schaible. wrote to correspon dent was
on Avon bond paper stock. One Of the
abusive, threatening, cowardly anony-
nous letters written to the head saw
yer Of the Rip-saw also was written on
Avon bond. There were other similar
tiles, also.
Several citizens have noticed slender,
amber-colored icicles, standing up out
Of the snow like little college canes,
on the recent cold mornings. Investi-
cation proved that these phenomena
were the results of q combination of
Noah A. Young's eopinus expectora-
ton and Minnesota frigidity.
The new farmer premier of Ontario
has started movement to reduce the
high cost of living by reducino his own
salary $4,000 year. If Duluth poll
tician started any such nonsense as
that. Warren Z. Greene might clamor
for his deportation as a-dangerous red
radical.
When the Duluth Street Railway
company went to the state legislature
for franchise favors, it showed lack of
confidence in the people Of Duluth.
Now that the dear old. corporation
comes to the people for financial Ia
vors, they feel a lack of confidence in
the company.
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