The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-09-30

The other chewed black cigar
And was exceeding sad.
Their case was vary much the same
= Yet one had lost his goat;
One had . date to meet dame,
And one to meet = note.
/ Isn't 1t really wonderful how man,
smart things you can think Of to -.
about An hour after you have mad
! your speech?
! Hanged II We would 20 hungry t,
spite somebody 6lse McSwinsy ough
to have punished Great Britain by try
| ing to eat up all the bs4f and potatoes
in the Kingdom.
| Nobody longer doubts the immedi
ate practicability Of telephone CONVEX
sation with Europe, but many phone
subscribers still look glum when ask.
ed for their guess on how soon they'll
have satisfactory service between
their homes ard their offices.
.
1t il said the best way to prepare
apples or pears for winter is to wrap
them in newspapers 20 as to exclude
the air. The exception Is made, how
ever, that the newspapers must be
one on which the subscription has
been paid, else the dampness Of the
"due" may result in spelling the fruit.
A kid with nickel went into q drug
store and after pricing all the diff
fsrent kinds Of soft drinks laid his
money down on the counter and start
cd out. Here" said the proprietor.
you left your money" II know it."
said the boy in disgust. you can have
it. A nickel amt no good any more.
There's nothing you can buy with it."
Mrs. Edwin was showing Selma,
the new Swedish maid, "the ropes"
"this," she said, "is my sons room.
He il in Yale" "Ya?' Selma's face
lit up with sympathetic understand
ing. my brudder bane there, too"
lis that SO? What year," asked Mrs.
Edwin, somewhat surprised. Zach, he
bane got no year; the judge say, You,
Axel, sixty days in yail.'"
An American agriculturist was tell
ing tall tales Of his brood Of chickens.
Twenty chickens from twelve eggs ap-
peared to be an everyday occurrence
in the States, if the stories he told
we're true. Happen you never see so
many az hundred Matched by one
hen at a setting?" asked Suffolk |
man across the table. The American |
had never seen such brood as that.
We'll, then, / have, mister" returned
the other. "Down Ipswich way we al
ways fill barrel with eggs and set
tould hen on the bunghole."
Pushing his broken down handcart
n front Of him, the man made the
,weet, suburban air hideous with his
,owls. ANY rags ?" he shrieked.
Old iron?" Stopping before the door
Il neat little house, he knocked and
waited till q careworn man ansyered
lis summons. go away!" he stamp
ID. There's nothing for you; my
wife is away" The merchant Of the
asst of property looked at his victim
md noted the tired lines round the
yes and mouth, and the trembling |
ands. Then he asked meekly: "Any
Id bottles, sir?"
Back in Kansas there is a town
AIMED Sawyer. Soon after the San
q Fe railroad was built through the
own = young couple boarded train
{ Nashville for Coldwater, towns on
ach side Of Sawyer. 1t was honey
noon trip, and just before reaching
lawyer the newly made husband, OBJ
vious to surroundings, embraced his
ride and gave her long-drawn kiss
ust then the brakeman shouted
Saw-yerI Saw-yerl' And the blush
" bride turned on the brakeman
18th flashing eyes and exclaimed, II
ont care II you did!--we're married,
guess"
A father, one evening when his three
mall daughters were having too much
in jumping about and playing on
heir bed, went to the bottom of the
tAirs and threatened to spank them
they didn't become quiet. The girls
smained quiet for few minutes, $
hen the fun broke out again. After n
ais performance had been repeated
sverAl times the father went upstairs .
, carry out his promise. Without
king the trouble to light = lamp, n
70 father administered three spank q
gs and went back downstairs. Next &
orning the eldest Of the girls COM =
aimed bitterly. IL don't see why