The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-06-10

THE EMM
r 1t is better to have loved and los
: than to pick out go-cart with you
|, wife.
1t is impossible today for man t.
save, $1,000. As soon as he succeeds
in saving about 5000 be buys car
Just supposjn' the possibilities
what would you think il both CONVEX
tions split and Hoover pulled nom
lination out Of each party!
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The merchant who waits for con-
ditions to get right before he does any
advertising is looking at the tail light
LOT opportunity instead Of the head
light.
4 A little girl was looking 1t = new
style book her mother had received.
After looking At page after page of
styles. the little girl looked up at her
mother and said, Mamma, where are
all the fat ladies ?"
! A Boston bactcriologist says germ
Diseases will flourish so long a. there
ia such flood Of paper money in cir
culston The other day another mi
crococcalogist declared kissing re-
sponsible for them. Anyway, so long
as kisses and money are spreading the
infection, the conntry's attitude will
be friendly.
Says an Emmett man: We always
have heard that limited amount Of
profanity Is pardonable when one
barks shin on rocking chair in the
dark. When one gets up in the dark
however. and with warm bare foot
treads upon cold rubber doll with
"A whistle in it, we think the limit
should be extended
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A company had opened new swim
ming bath in the place and as COM
pliment sent free ticket to the n ayor
The worthy man was pleased, but he
began to wonder when another ticket
arrived Sitting down he wrote to the
bath proprietor as follows: Gentle
man: Your first ticket received as
a compliment. Your second strikes
me as suggestive. II you send me a
third shall take it as a personal in
suit"
AS man walked along a quiet
country road, he noticed smoke and
flames issuing from the upper win
dows Of a secluded house. Running
up he ponadel on the door Justify, till
an old woman opened it. Madam,
your house is on fire!p he exclaimed
in great excitement. "Bh?" II say
your house is on firep He raised his
voice several degrees. She put her
hand to her ear and leaned toward him
What" she demanded Your house
is burning" he roarde. "Oh! Is that
all 2" That's all can think Of just
now, madam" he gasped.
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This story comes from Arkansas:
Pears like Polk Sawney, that runs
he store at the crossroads, hain't
,verrid with enterprise luther day,
'rinstance, went there in the middle
II the afternoon, to buy little some
hing, talk a few politics, and so forth.
When sa'ntered in nobody was in
light on the place. But after I'd
romped around for a spell sleepy
'oice from under the counter sorter
married.: "If you're a drummer that
inns to sell me something, l don't
'ant it; and if you're customer that
J figgering on buying something, why
! fury can't you just as we'll come
round some time when hain't plumb
-yaw-w-w n!-wore out? %
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Old Bill Misgivens has memory
rat is nothing short Of go-getter.
ccording to Bill, August and Sep
,mber of 1885 broke all records for
OF weather in Kansas. Says his
,ildren had planted about Is rows Of
,pcorn across the field next to .
nee. That corn was wonder, grow
z % ears to the stalk, or thereabout
bout the time this corn got ripe
ong comes hot wind that sets the
rain to popping till they hoped off
'e cobs like q snow storfn. In fact,
icy went rolling - tumbling
yainst the fence till there was =
1T over ten feet high, for all the
orld like snow drift. Everybody
~ astonished. A span Of Jed
INKS mules come along looking for
cool place, spied the drift and laid
yht down and froxe to death. A