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

ofel 'n1S ye"iS Jo''
Luther C. Harris, a high-brow, silk
stocking lawyer, has charge of the To-
| cal Hindenburg drive to smash unions
and around Duluth. Tell not the
news to Charley Towne:
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Joel Lichten might have done worse
than to wear a frock coat, silk hat and
diamond pin in his tie when he went
before Judge Morris for the sweet
boon of American citizenship.
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To man up a 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
not 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
"ocky over the successful absorption
of the peoples telephone system that
~teps are being taken to build the local
telephone headquarters as high as the
Tower Of Babel.
G. Francis Colman, treasurer Of the
school board and a 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.
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 90 bit
further next time in the scrubbing out
Of the noble structure.
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Hon. Scion Perrin, judge on the Su-
perior bench in the dear old city Of
Superior, shows skill in splitting his
decisions that would have done credit
TO old Solomon when he was expected
to divide up the baby.
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 viii have to run by
proxy if he aspires to hold his place
Ia 80 sak ANx ~
rem E. Greene feel impelled to say:
"Fatber. let me make the arduous race
, for YOU"
Modest. timid, retiring women, driv-
en- demented by the struggle for mere
| existence. should have decent hospital
accommodation before transfer to the
state mad-house, instead of being
| bunked in smelly blankets in the stem
chy old county Jail:
A pernickety dame in the marble
| lined courthouse recently nearly had a
| 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, C. 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.
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After three years at Duluth g public
school treasury, Supt. Hoke is plump
ing out like a quail in harvest time.
The first year he was here he was 50
thin and weak that he sat in the swivel
chair and idlv smoked his savannah
cigars all the day long.
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 Doe. Schaibly alias
Schaible. wrote to a correspondent wac
| 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.
titles, 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 a combination of
Noah A. Young's con;ons 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
solary $4,000 a year. If Duluth poll.
tician started any such nonsense as
that. Warren f. Greene might clamor
for his deportation as a dangerous red
radical.
When the Duluth Street Railway
romnany went to the state legislature
for franchise favors, it showed lack of
confidence in the people of Duluth
Now that the dear old corporation