The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-15
Inter Mountain
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Maybe this bloomin' old desert -
vet going to be the real Garden of
eden. -BIackfoot (Idaho) News.
A drummer returning from CANADA
with loaded grip might be called
bottle-scared hero. Carson City (NeY.)
News.
Quebec limits an individuals liquor
to quart day. Now we know why
the geese went north early this spring
-Nampa (Idaho) Record.
While IS days may have seemed q
long sentence TO the members Of the
Montana legislature, most citizens felt
the punishment fell most heavily upon
them. Butte (Mont) Miner.
We would lay small bet that ono
of the first purchasers of Mr. Lam
sings new book in Washington, ID. o.,
was one Woodrow Wilson, private cit
lien. -Kemmerer (WyoJ Republican.
Burleson tries to explain the crime
wave on Psychological grounds, bus
neglects to suggest that lot of folks
may have been driven to desperation
because they didn't get their mall
Carson City (Nev.) News.
Are you consumed with a desire to
travel, young man? Then start right
by Systematically beating a path from
your home to your farm or place Of
business. The rest will come easy.
Brigham City (Utah) Journal.
If the drug stores are permitted 10
sell real beer to invalids and those
with rundown constitutions, great
number of former healthy individuals
will suddenly realize that they need
winding up to mend their constitu-
tiOns.-Ely (Nev.) News. &c.,.
Some people are dazzled by the big
ness of the great metropolitan stores.
To them the fact that store Ia rela-
cively small, serving as it does less
numerous group of patrons, proves
that it isn't SO good. However they
usually get away from this attitude
after some practical experience lko
(Nev.) Free Press.
A San Francisco judge has an
nounced as a guiding rule for hus-
bands in pursuit of domestic happi-
ness that when a husband stays out
until 2 a. m. playing poker he should
divide his winnings with the wife.
Sounds fair and all right, but what
in Helen Blazes is he going to do
about it when he don't win brigham
City (Utah) Journal.
The fishing season is with us again.
And we can't think of a better way
for fellow to ease soul and body and
rest his mind from business cares for
a few hours than to get pole and
line and few worms and hike out to
some nook where he thinks they'll
bite. But-be sure and take along
the right kind of bait, and don't for
get to take along lot of PATIENCE
Bull (IdahO) Republican.
The closing down of the Nevada
Consolidated Copper company is a
very severe blow to the Ely district
and White Pine county, which for
many years past has been one of the
most prosperous sections of the inter-
mountain country. However, the
cause is due entirely to economic con.
ditions in Europe, and therefore will
not be of long duration.-Ely (Nev.)
Record.
Salt Lake county's officers uncov-
cred lot of liquor at Bingham last
week. About $50 gallons of whisky
which 1t is alleged had been buried for
four years, was found by the deputy
sheriffs. If the present force in the
office of the Salt Lake sheriff fol.
lows in the footsteps of their prede-
cessors they ought to be able to clean
zap quite a nice sum of money boot
begging this liquor.-Eureka (Utah)
Reporter.
The world is fast reaching the con.
clusion that German "kultur." when
put to the test, has lacked the eIe-
ments essential to self-government
with all her boosted superiority of
wisdom, of self-control, of industry of
political acumen, Germany is not mea.
suring up today with France and Eng
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