The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-02-16
nter-Mountain
Editorial Hilites
Selected for Western Newspaper Union
Service byfR. A. c. and C. B. w.

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Service byfR. A. C. and C. B. w.
Price has doctor who boasts that
he never has made wrong diagnosis.
Poker hand?-Price (Utah) Sun.
Doctors are waging a war on high
heels. But none Of them objects to
having q patient well heeled.-Ss,t
Lake Telegram.
It Is all very well to talk about q
fiat tax on incomes, but what about a
tax on flat incomes Twin Falls
Udaho) Times.
What's the matter this winter? We
haven't seen q story about the deer
fighting in the streets for months and
months.-Nampa (Idaho) Free Press.
One person, more or less concerned,
who is apt to consider the coming in
augural festivities amply sufficient, no
matter what their nature, Is President
WiisOn.-Butte (M0nt.) Miner.
In good times the movies prosper
because everyone has plenty of money
to spend ohs entertainments, and IN
bad times they prosper because pe0
pie 60 to the pictures when they can't
find any work to dO.-Richfield (Utahl
Reaper.
That was a pretty piece of devo-
ton on the part of the wife who gave
a piece of her jawbone to repair her
husbands broken leg. Now of it win
only be still long enough to knit with
the other bone, all will be well.-Em.
NETT Udaho) Examiner.
Farmers who have hesitated about
signing up to raise beets on account Of
difficulty in securing labor in the past
are now assured there will be plenty
of beet field workers available and
those who have been holding back on
this account are now signing up
Fallon (Nev.) Eagle.
J. Ogden Armour says newspapers
Ought not to print unverified rumors,
and to judge from the mere sound Of
his statement you would guess that
Mr.. Armour wants the newspapers
to print the truth about everything,
including the packing business.-Idaho
FAILS Udaho) Times-Register.
The proposed plan Of the Nevada
Legislature to advance the cost of a
fishing license from 81 to 81 will not
meet with serious objection, provided
that the Nevada fish commission will
expend the extra revenue thus oh
tanned in restocking the streams
Gardnerville (Nev) Record Courier.
Investigations develop the fact that
some of the big contractors who robbed
the country and the people were Re
publicans, some were Democrats
some Episcopalians, some Hard Shell
Baptists and some not much of any
thing. It was not a case of creed OF
politics, but of all-round general Gus
sedness of human nature.-Brighan
City (Utah) Journal.
The cry "hard times" was not borne
out by facts at the Peterson auction
sale Tuesday. There was q goo<
crowd and bidding was lively-every
thing bringing good price. Cow
selling at unusually good figures, rang
Ing from 500 to STAT, and other stool
. In proportion, IS per cent of the pur
chases being paid for in cash.-Parm'
, (Idaho) Review.
, Other things to be avoided in time
! like these are the efforts Of i'm
promptu craftsmanship. That mean
that one should not draw up bill
D for this or that without thinking
!, over. Often there is much mischie
. done in such ways. Men and classe
!. Of men should not be, humOred to bt
. lieve that everything they want ca
2 be given them by statute.-GOldfiel
> New Tribune.
A federal prohibition agent Of 81
q attic reports that after two year
Y search a still was found which wa
n underground and could only be al
r p-Oached by going through a hOllO
log. the entrance of which was col
9 cealed by stumps and briars, says q
/. exchange. Water was piped from
d spring to a room 1Ox14 feet, fro
y which a sewer led to the river.-vi
g.nia City (Nev.) Chronicle.
II It is said that the former Germs
n kaiser employs more than sixty ser
s. ants, and is regularly supplied Wi
huge sums OF money from the fathe
ts land. OF course 1t is a commendab
70 endeavor to raise money in the Unit
IS States to feed the destitute populate
Of Europe, but zest would be added
er the campaign for funds If little d
20 ferent treatment were accorded 4