The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-01-06
TALES OF TOWN

speaking OF batbing IN FAMOUS
springs said the hobo, II bsthed in
the spring Of IT,"
| The days are growing longer ut the
evening end, but they are still power
full short al the morning end.
1 "Maw says you can't kiss me any
more, Willie Jones, cause you might
get microbes and ! might get your
crobes."
Did you notice that there were SO
! Thar.days in 1920 against the usual
81, and that you received SO issues Of
The Index during 19207
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It isn't the original cost Of smok-
ing. it's the upkeep, after the cigar
gets down SO short that it takes
pocketful Of matches to keep 1t going
Getting in debt Ia all right for the
man who knows how to get out, but
otherwise it is like fellow jumping
into deep water without being able
TO swim.
According TO the daily papers =
Christmas dinner in q Paris restau-
rant cost SAB, $50 for the food and
s1s for champagne. The prices they
charge for food over there are sim
ply outrageous.
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About all the other great minds
have been called into consultation at
Marion during the past six weeks,
thus saving you and us until Mr..
Harding gets into office and the real
problems begin to come up for dici-
sion,
In Philadelphia they fined a dry
officer who drank the evidence. The
poor man couldn't tell whether the
stuff had kick without drinking
until he connected with the kick,
could he? Folks are so unreason-
able.
A new bathing suit invented by an
official Of the royal army clothing
is claimed to make
impossible. But should this
bathing suit fail to save any person
from drowning he can call at the Of
flee and have his money back
The Index has received a nice 1921
from big packing company
If Chicago, along with nicely con-
Keyed hint for little write-up for
he benefit of the farmers and, incl
lenthily, it is supposed Of the pack
RS, too. But the calendar won't
aise the price Of the stockman's cat
lie and hogs and sheep one cent.
"Tell me, Jamie, what was the most
thing you saw while at :
ca ?" II think the strangest thing !
aw was the flying fish, moo, lad :
lie, dinna max fule o. yer mither. :,
Via ever heard o. fish feein?" :
Another strange thing saw when !,
rossing the Red Sea, We dropped
nehor, and when we raised it again :
mere was one Of the wheels of Pha- :,
aoh's chariot on it." "Aye, laddie, y
clieye, you. We've scriptare for !,
nat u
A commercial traveller, thAfty u
FLOW, got married and, deciding to "
i'll two birds with one stone. took u
Is wife over the district he "work- u
|" for her honeymoon trip. On the 1
ay he couldn't help Boosting to her a.
how well he was known on the road. u
Why" he ended up one brilliant ora W
on on his popularity, Eat the Bean al
I'd Barnacle they not only always az
served place for me, but, know Of
K how ! like honey, they invariably al
1t a plate Of it on my table, even 81
hen II is not on the bill of fare" ~
rived at the Bean and Barnacle. "
q commercial travler discovered re
his chagrin that for some inexpli- Oh
he reason his honey had been for ne
,tten. Water" he said, GROSSLY, on
where is my honey!. "She left last w
eek. sir" replied the waiter. vs.
The judge had never taken Turk ~
b bath, but he was not feeling the
st one morning, and It suddenly oc-
FRED to him to test its vivifying ef
cts. II seemed to him that the rub !. -
Z down was terrible rough, but, ~
airing TO expose his inexperienee !,
ID subject himself to ridicule by or
jecting TO the regular treatment, dr
patiently endured being punched, II
slapped, spanked, whaled. en-
d poked, until he could stand the
rture no longer. as Il quite -
necessary to uaa-kae - me ~
bla-aek and blue all overfH