The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-01

We, however, are heartily in favor
Of a league-of Americanism.
Imagination is lens which makes
troubles seem larger than they are.
No, sister, the rocky road TO matri-
mony is not rocky-.if he has plenty
of ''rocks."
How many cases of accidental death
would post mortems on doctors pa
tients reveal.
The baldheaded man who pays four
bits for a hair cut is among the vic
Tins of the profteer.
When people laugh at what you say
it is a joke. But when they laugh al
you, you are the joke.
A reader wants to know if we can
give a correct definition of the modern
girl. We can, but we dasn't.
Prices, we are told, are still coming
down. With the use OF smoked glass
es they should soon be in Sight.
Never squea when you get stung
in a horse trade. 1t only adyertises
the horse sense you do not possess.
The wreck Gov. Cox was in the
other day was just a sort of a curtain
raiser for the one he will be in Noyem
Der 2.
The allies are said TO be putting
teeth in the league Of nations. But
If they do the blamed thing may chew
itself up.
Ills said that an amicable settle
ment of the Irish question Is a posi-
bility of the future. Quite future, we
presume.
All of our wise and astute politi-
clans are strong for letting the women
vote-now that they are going to vote
anyway. a.
When may the country look for the
presidents biennial appeal to elect "a
democratic congress as a matter OF
PATRIOTS
Things are beginning to look just a
little shaky for us rich bloods. But
Wen let the clerks and the messeng-
ers do the worrying.
Now that they have attained the
eminence of political sovereignty, will
the ladies remove their hats in the
presence of gentlemen?
No, Algernon, it is not necessary TO
apologize for wearing your straw hat
into the closed season.. 1t was incon-
siderate of the season to close.
The women voted in large numbers
thank you-as some of our extinguish
ed politicians can mournfully testify
in the midst of their extinction.
An Illinois vegetable peddler drop
ped dead when d housewife asked the
price of lima beans. Apparently well
yersed In the correct thing to do.
The democrats find that the people
are not willing to contribute to the
party campaign fund. No man wants
to put his money on a spawned horse.
Our sincere regrets to dear old Mex
leo. We plumb forgot to chronicle
the fact that General Obregon was
duly and properly elected president a
few weeks ago and is still above
ground.
We just knew the women of this
country were endowed with becoming
modesty as well as good sense. Not a
single one has SHE'D her M llinery into
the presidential ring for the election
four years hence.
Dispatches from France state that
the government has limited the price
of American hard coal to $32 a ton.
But what gets our nanny is the fact
that France can get our hard coal
when we In America can not.
A dealer in Bloomington, H., was
so worried over his inability to secure
coal for his customers tl.at he com
mitted suicide. That, however, may
not be so bad. 1t saves him the an.
noyance OF freezing to death later on.
Judging from the contents of some
daily newspapers, 1t would be better
II they were sent out to their sub
scribers before being printed. They
would be more elevatlng in their cf-
fect upon humanity, and Of some prac