The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-02-09
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With booze at q dollar a drink,
there is long waiting list for s.ery
anti.treating club.-Cars0n City (Nsv.)
News.
One II the saddest facts that we
have to record is that Private Stock
Is not enlisting-Leadville (COlo.)
Herald Democrat.
D.. No Washington bartenders will have
to listen to the fresh crop Of stories
brought In by tine new administrator.
Salt Lake Telegram.
What right have we to laugh at the
ROlshevists when we read in history
that our Puritan fathers put a tax on
bath tubs.-Cedar City (Utah) Record.
There is lot of protest against the
prohibition law, but womep and chill
dren don't seem to be taking very ac-
tive parts in it.-Winnemucca (Nev.)
Silver State.
When q woman gets a letter from
her kin, her husband waits anxiousfy
till she gets through reading it, to
learn who is coming this time-Em.
nett udaho) Examiner.
The poor ILL old" punchboard il
next to get the reform ak. District
attorneys Of Oregon, in convention at
Portland last week, decided to wage
war upon them.-vale (Ore.) Enter
prise.
There is just one man who is as IN
dependent as 'hog on ice" and you
can't say much to him except in q
friendly way. He's the man who lives
In a house Of his own, all paid for
Meridian Udaho) Times.
Many of US who don't own Boise
project lands were entirely eligible to
attend the recent water users meet.
ing. Haven't we qualified by being
water users ever since the prohibition
law went into effect ?-Caldwell
(Idaho) Tribune.
The auto is becoming more and
more safe. Drivers are more and
more careful. But there are still care
less .irivers and careless pedestrians,
and even If the lions share of the re-
sponaibility does lie with the driver,
society will not go amiss by protect
ing both classes.-BOise (Idaho)
State sman.
ThHt bank in Yerington that is gdv'
ing each newborn child q bank &C
count Of 81 would need some bank roll
if that proposition were extended to
ElkO county. We are toh-mind you
merely told-that the stork will be
some busy bird this year bringing
babies to the Countrywide (Nev.)
Free Press.
Juft because some scribe INDUCING
In poetic license might happen to re.
mark, anent the Benjamin Franklin
anniversary, that the distinguished pa
troit sis sleeping in Philadelphia" is
no reason for any outsider to get up
to inquire. "Well, what else would lac
be doing ,there?" No, sir; nothing like
lt.-Butte MONTY Miner.
Still there's probably too much com.
petition among the brewerles in some
sections of the state, and it is said
that farseeing bootleggers predict q
sharp break in the price Of hootch un'
less something Is done to curtail the
production thereof, which at presen,
is rapidly increasing in volume
Bingham (Utah) Press-Bulletin.
Why vail and shed oceans of pes.
simistic tears over conditions that are
not half as bad as the faint-hearted
pretend? This country is built on q
foundation Of optimism. with every
grain Of sand in 1t 100 per cent grit
You should be the same way-too
much 'grit" to give up. Start Athings
moving again.-Eden (Idaho) Eagle.
So worked up are some Of oul
goody-goody. publicity-loving legisla'
tors over the health and morals Of u
poor sinners that they are now taxing
their brains (?) forming laws to pre-.
vent chimneys from smoking, the pro
hibition Of the sale Of smoked hams
and the arrest and IMPRISONMENT OF