The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-08-09

He also made a great hit by digging
up a box of chips and few decks OF
cards, the absent-minded Bingham hav.
ing forgotten the layout that is used
in Sunday forenoon sessions at the
Herald office.
Great disappointment was felt over
the failure Of DR.. William E. Ham
mond to come on from Washington to
participate in the clam-bake, the coun.
Gil meeting and then the war dance.
A special grapevine telegram from DR..
Hammond to Big Chief Weiss read as
follows:
"Gfeetings and regrets. Am with
you in spirit if not in body. Impos-
sible to come this year because Wood
row insists that me and Carss stick
around in Washington until the five
weeks recess. This League Of Nations
stuff requires that stand by the Ship
Of State until it is safely docked.'
Little Tammany has been credited
with wishing to get Congressman
Carss fully tied up and committed to
the Tammany cause. It is believed
that, since his election, the canny pie
counter aggregation has managed to
slap q rather imperfect brand on the
big engineer but, SO far, they have
not succeeded in getting him hog-tied.
Once they succeed in that purpose,
it is not believed that Hon. Mr.. Carss
ever will escape from the Little Tam
many corral. DR.. Hammond may be
down there in Washington to help out
the pie-counter braves. Who knowsf
Frederick Lidwell Ryan badly want
ed to attend this years gathering on
Isle Royale, where he would have had
charge Of the cellarette, but he has
been expecting his commission as post:
master almost any day, therefore DID
not dare leave.
Cousin Henry, acting postmaster,
tried to assure Frederick that the
RYAN interests would be safe in his
hands, but the sly old scout failed to
fall for the cousinly Establishments.
DR.. Joseph H. Shartel had high hopes
Of going to the Island this year for
the Getit- and -Keepit degree, but the
recent death of Old John Barleycorn
saddened him so that he had no heart
for festivities Of any kind. Instead
of going to the Island, he went up
to New Duluth and sat on the bank
Of the st. Louis river all one day, from
sunrise to sunset, gazing across at the
former Oasis of Oliver.
Ed. Ribenack formerly played ball
a bit with Little Tammany's braves,
but he is safely a senator for two more
years, therefore has no wire edge on
his political tomahawk. He was TOO
busy keeping hotel and making money
to even 60 to an annual clam'oake.
A special message from Lee Will
cuts, often seen slipping into Big
Chief Weiss teepee, was received, As
follows:
"While wishing you a happy time
T also wish to thank you tor help
given Burnquist in Last falls election.
I deeply appreciate your invitation to
be present as q guest Of honor and
even to help you make heap big medi.
cine' in the council teepee. 1 might
be seen and recognized, therefore deem
it wise to stay away. Bingham mas
proper credentials to represent DOTH
me and the noble Wolvin building"
The Big Injuns were somewhat sur
prised to receive q hot air message
from John E. Jensen, as follows:
"I most earnestly and anxiously
beg your support Of my candidacy to
succeed Commissioner Phillips two
wears hence. Do not let tho Labor
Party, the Socialists, the Vets or Drys,
nor even the Republicans, know that
I have asked your backing, as wish
to carry water on both shoulders and
keep half q dozen buckets Of the fluid
in the air, at the same time. Farrell
threw me down for chief Of police,
therefore I MUST have Phillips job. "
When it came to the council fire,
after doing justice to the CLAIMS and
roasting ears, q resolution was unani-
mously passed to the effect that an
Irishman makes . more satisfactory
postmaster than Scotchman.
Postmaster Sheibe, Of Cloquet, was
endorsed for state senator to succeed
Vibert.
Bert, the Boy Engineer, submitted
his plans and specifications for put.
ting the Rip-Saw out Of business, but
Big Chief Weiss did not warm up
much over them, fearing that they
would prove faulty, II not futile. Last
spring, when On the Political waxpatA,