The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-01-19
nter-Mountain
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Service by r. A. C. AID C. B.W.
Why doesn't some Jealous person
start crusade whose object shall be
prohibition of profiteering caldwell
Qdaho) Tribune.
Coalville citizens long ago learned
that every little bit added to what you
got makes just a little bit more tax
-Coalville UTtah) Times.
The high price of lumber has pro.
duced at least one beneficial result.
People no longer carry chips on their
shoulders.-Winnemu (Ne ~ Star
"A friend in need" would be all
right if you could depend upon him
still to be your friend when you are
in need.-Gardnerville New Record.
COURIER.
Office seekers going to Washington
TO interview the new president should
remember that the roads are in bad
shape for walking home in March,
Richfield (Utah) Reaper.
Jellyfish are left on the rocks when
the tide goes out. No doubt they COM
plain of adverse conditions. They can
not adjust themselves to the situation.
-Rnhl Udaho) Republican.
The reform wave is getting an early
start in this state, and it is a dull day
when some new petition fails to mate
iialize. A proposed alright anti.
gambling law is the latest to appear.
Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle.
The young man who squanderS his
money has many companions, but few
friends. Men form friendships for
those whom they can respect and no
one respects another who dissipates
his substance in riotous living ogan
(Uiah) Journal.
The ultra-dry bigots are going to
help undo even the good in that law,
If they do not let up. The people are
III souic pIolcSt. Lie 4kicS'
ton was informally submitted in 1--WE
states, Massachusetts and North Da
kota, and both of them voted moder
ltely "wet."-Goldfield (Nev.) News.
Mister Lenine, over there in Russia
Is said to be uncommonly anxious to
turn the United States to Bolshevism.
| Our compliments to Mister Lenine, but
we have to say that he is entirely mis-
| taken as to the nature of the folks
| that inhabit these little old United
States. - American Falls I'D thO)
Press.
| When president and congress work
together, hills are ironed into valleys,
and roads made smooth. Neither
president nor congress alone bears the
full responsibility Neither alone can
have all the knowledge. Both must
be involved in every important ma
tional movement. - Boise u1aho)
! Statesman.
Only two persons are residing in
Rhyolite now. In its boom days the
own had 1000 or 5000 residents, but
the houses are rapidly falling into
decay now and not even a prospect is
being developed in that section. Ac-
.ording to the men who have just re-
turned, the town is truly a "ghost
city'-Tonopah (Nev) Bonanza.
Every community has it's spirit.
With some it is one of honor and in
| tegrity and progressive intellectually.
| With others the spirit of greed. gouge,.
repression and retrogression predomi-
| lates The first attains it's aim in
| life, while the latter aims no higher
than that which it attains. We of this
| community have our choice. We can
progress with the march of time, or
we can procrastina.e while time
marches by.-Parrla udaho) Review.
Reform cranks in our state are PLAN
ming to get in the limelight Of pub
iicity by urging legislation for the pre-
vention of the sale OF tobacco and the
punishment of those who use it. Bosh
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
first efforts of those half-baked, belly,
aching extremists will be ridiculed to
death in the opening days of the com,
Ing state legislature-and we believe
they will be.-Park City (Utah) Rec
ord.
| Smile, dodgast you, and keep ever
laStingly at it, even If 1t does make
you resemble a blithering idiot, be-
cause it is much better to smile than
gloom and crouch, always. The first
day you begin, smile fifty times; the
next day sixty, and keep it up until
you reach 200. 1t will expand your
face several inches until it looks like
L hucleberry map Of the Garden of
Eden, but, of course, If you are an I'M
dertaker, you will have to get into
some other line of business.-Bright I'M