The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-02-04

Those Knee-high skirts are bound to
put a lot of free rubber on the mar
ket-Glenns Ferry Qdaho) Gazette.
1t often happens that the first time
you doubt a thing is when YOU hear a
reputable liar tell about it.-Logan
(Usah) Republican.
Now the question arises how the fell
lows who drink hair tonic are going
to get the insides of their stomachs
barbered.--Elko (Nev.) Free Press.
The man whose telephone il 2021
complains because his chances o. get
ting the wrong number are just about
20-to-1.- -Nampa Qdaho) Free Press
Senators talk about a lot of things
dot germane to the question. The
other day they were discussing the
coal business and drifted into an argu-
ment on common nonesty."-Winne-
mucca (Nev.) Star.
The Lucy Page CASTOR who asks
Harding to shun cirgarets probably
uses rouge, chews gum, eats shrimp
salad and wears short skirts. V-cut
waists and French heels.-Brigham
City (Utah) Journal.
When the criminal is adequately
punished, the law will be respected
and the crime wave will recede. But
when the criminal is pampered, others
will endeavor to emulate his criminal
career.-Sptrks (Nev.) Tribune.
Even the standard ~uuthority, Noah
Webster, made his mistakes. He de-
dned the British pound sterling as
having a worth of $4.S4. Wall street,
the final authority, says the value is
a dollar less.-Fallon (Nev.) Standard.
On the ground that they carry dis
case germs, male school teachers In an
Oregon school have got to remove their
9hlskers and mustaches. A mans
cVA " DC oiiOOAif 1 " iOid a JOD ~ ina
district.-Emmett (Idaho) Examiner.
Certain senator's, even from the
~estern states, are taking the japan
rse question with %jocular lightness.
Their successors will walk in On an
exclusion platform as sooD as the home
farm lands begin to change
nands.-Twin Falls (Idaho) Times.
Rumor has 1t that the proprietor
or one Of our best Known dstilleries
drank an overdose of his "white mule"
and set his Whole establishment and
and all he owned on fire, all of
fitch burned to the ground, including
hundred dollars in currency
%elta (Utah) Chronicle.
A bunch of so-called sportsInen were
the privilege by some cattle
Gu Antelope island to shoot the
,uffaloes that haG been rcised on the
place for many years. No regular
'portsman would have been a party
that sort of a deal. No regular Of
icial would have tolerated it.-Poca
clio Qdaho) Tribune.
Metchnikoff, philosopher, said Il
would drink a quart of butter
milk every day they would live to be
80 years old. He did that himself.
died at II. We'd sooner die while
Dung and innocent than live to great
Id age by making a walking slop bar
ell of our innards.-Logan utah,
This Is tn best country on the face
4 the globe. 1t has the best govern
lent, but that government, like hui
beings, has some faults, admit
eddy, 1t couldn't be conducted by hui
beings and be otherwise. Yet
here is nothing to be gained by try
to tear down and not build up.
cts all be builders In this commn
Ity.-Rupert Qdaho) Republican.
This week has been a freezer" and
"refrigeratOr"-'nuf to make any
ody want to 90 to II or some sunny {
lime where no Ice or snow exists.
'e've burned enough coal to feed the {
of the battleship Utah on a
lip to South Africa, but still we are ,
with the cold. No snap to
IN a printing office In the winter
me; we'd rather be skinn:ng aligators {
st. Augustine, Fla.-Gar'and (Utah)
lobe.
The fault of social life is that It's
vors are ~unevenly distributed. The
'pular girl with her pretty face and
,ile tongue, gers so many invitations
ar she may spoil her youth with late
'urs and frivolous ideas. Meanwhile
any quiet and reserved young people
no need social attrition TO bring out
cir fine powers, miss the change for
lf-development that wholesome So
ety should give to all-Naridian