The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-03-24

| Why will an ornery little Scrut
rose bush go on blooming year after
year, with no care and in the most
impossible places, and yet when you
try to raise one and are right particu-
lar about it, the blamed thing up and
dies the first winter7 It's enough to
make the amateur gardener go and
cultivate dandelions.
When he was In the war, he was a
supply sergeant. He Is now employ
ed in Z department store, but often
forgets that he Is no longer Ia the
army. Recently . Lady entered the
store and asked for q pair Of pajam-
-, size 36. well, where's your old
ones Z" the ex-sergeant snapped out.
"Yuh gotta bring in your old ones
I've gotta see your old ones"
Just before the service the minister
was called into the vestibule by a
young couple who asked that he mar
ry them. He answered that he had
not time then but that If they would
wait until after the sermon he would
be glad to accommodate them. Ac-
cordingly, just before the benediction,
he announced: "Will those who wish
to be married today please come for
wardl" Thirteen women and one
man stepped up.
The cow, says Henry Ford, repre-
SCENTS the crudest of machinery and it
is the simplest matter to take the
same cereals that cows eat and to /
produce milk with them that viii be
free from the germs Of tuberculosis,
better in quality and cheaper. Hav-
ing abolished the horse and COW Hen
ry can next consider the Missouri
mule.
Motorists who come through En-
nett enroute for Boise have about
he following conversation when they
top at the filing stations here: II
It's Cadillac the driver says: How
ar is it to Boise?" Thirty miles," b
8 the reply. "Gimme four gallons of
.as and quart of OIL" says the dfiv-
II. Then comes Buick and the
river says: "How far is it to Roi-
el" Thirty miles" Gimme two
'allons Of gas and pint of OIL" and
e drives on. Along comes a fiivver ,
nd the driver uncramps himself, gets
ut, stretches and asks: "How far is /
to Boise! :" ooh, about 80 miles" 9
Is that ALT Gimme quart Of wat
r and q bottle. Of g in I and hold :
his son-of-a-gun until ]. get in" III
Here are two stories of court pro- 9
edure in Georgia. One is brief and !
, the point: Flows the fishing :
owl" the court queried the attorney.
Good" he replied. Courts adjourn
a." The other tells of a Georgia
istice of the peace, holding court in +
lie schoolhouse, the case involving the &
aughter of an innocent cow by al
Ierciless railroad train. The section
I'd experienced severe drouth, and
lst as the arguments started, rAinl
sgan to fall. The court hurriedlyl
# the bench. "The courts IeavingI
set out potatoes" the justice an
'unced. The trial lawyer protested.
I don't make any difference whether
~ protest or not" said the expo-1
mt Of Georgia law and JUSTICE
me courts going out to set perta-
rs. Anyhow, the lawyer needn't
ind. He can keep right on arguin'
nd. when he's through with his AZ
mint he can turn to the last pags {
this book on my desk. There he'll
ID the decision. I've wrote It all {
t. E
A negro in Kentucky drove to = L
use leaf tobacco warehouse in one E
the Indiana cities on the Ohio with Ia
load of tobacco. When he received d
} sale slips and weights he noticed d
e customary check was missing. y
,proaching the cashier he said: n
ook here, boss, where is my money H
/ this here tobacco?" The sales Il
eet was consulted. ITS like this; H
. expense of weighing, unloading, n
d commission for selling your to- a
eco amounted to more than the TO- s
eco was worth, You still owe US
cents" explained the cashier. 4
Tell, that's all right, l guess. but :
amt got cent with me-" Then 3