Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-22

Wells (Nevada) Herald.
No law that ever was passed can
legislate out of humanity a single
human trait, and yet fools forever
will keep on attempting it.-CarSHn
City (Nev.) News.
They used to call the persons who
attended dances but didn't dance, spec
tators, but CLOTHES observers" would
be more specific at the present time,
and these clothes observers are close
observers-Malad Qdaho) Enterprise
We at this moment have personal
reasons for recalling a bit If phil
osophy once advanced by Mark Twain
to the effect that if one has worries
and troubles he can quickly forget
them by buying and wearing a pair
Of shoes that pinch the feet.-Council
(Idaho) Leader.
With the exception of deposits in
Africa, Idaho has the largest phos-
plate fields In the world, lying east of
st. Anthony in the TeutOn range.
Idaho phosphates are considered rich
est owing to higher per cent Of
phosphate than the African field.-St,
Anthony Peak Chronicle.
The agricultural department says
that milk is so Plentiful that it can be
fed to stock. Don't know where he
got the information, but we wish who
ever gathered the statistics would
communicate with our milkman-
maybe he'd come back to prewar
prices.-Ely (Nev.) Times.
Nampa is installing a new unit to
Its city water pumping plant. And
someone remarked that probably
Nampa did not have much confidence
In the new beer-permitting edict from
Washington, consequently she needs
lots of water-Caldwel (Idaho) Trl-
bune.
In 1920 there were 1141 newspapers
which suspended, went broke, or were
forced to consolidate with another
paper for lack of support. And vet,
no doubt each one of those papers
was an ardent booster of its particular
region. Funny old world, isn't it?-
Delta (Utah) Chronicle.
Possibly it's little trying on some
people to earn enormous incomes and
then have the government step in and
annex a majority of 1t in the shane
of excess profits tax. And still. we
wouldn't object to undergoing the or
deal a time or two, just for the sake
Of experience.-Parma Idaho1 Re.
view.
If the oil output keeps on decreas.
ing and the auto supply keeps on in.
creasing, the outlook is that the bic
Oil companies will switch consider
able in a few years from gasoline to
alcohol. And then, maybe, the autos
Will be dancing Jig around the cor
ners on one wheel.-Brigham CITY
| (Utah) Journal.
A marriage permit In Chicago cost.
S1.5O and dog license $3.50, and th,
county clerk wants the price of mar
riage licenses raised to a level will
the permit to keep a dog. But h,
forgets that dog license lasts a yea
and marriage licanses-well. Won know
how Chicago divorce is.-Rlchmont
(Utah) Recorder.
. New York man complains to tn,
police that a "tall, handsome ma,
who smokes cOrk-tipped cigarettes
sold him a large section of the Gran,
Central terminal for $1,000 and dis
appeared without delivering the goods
Well, there are some railroad station,
that wouldn't be worth as much q,
that delivered-G oldfield New Tri
bune.
These Old-time saloons making
blum of selling nothing but Crane mic,
and soda pop are a delusion and
snare. The grape juice and soda no,
they sell will give you the same 81,
ousthead, and any time you are think
ing OF strolling around to one of then
just to see Satan rebuking sin If vii
be just as well to leave all hnt TWO
bits at home.-Gardnervine New
Records Courier.
a cuckoo is bird that never bniid
It's own nest. but always laws its 90,
In the nest of some other bird on
country is crowded with cuckoos i
very busy laying eggs. They meet m,
plot They harangue each other Tho,
curse the house Of Uncle Sam rho,
ask, Who was George WashInptor
anyhow They tell each other tba
private property is highway robher1
mat is merely because they haven,
l 0nE and man. x-.N.,,.-