The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-05-18

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A store advertisss that 1t has some
thing interesting in silk stockings
Nearly everything in silk stocking,
is interesting.
"Mose, what would you do If you
received . letter from the Ku Klux
Klan?" . negro was asked "Well.
sab, I'd read it on . train" replied
Nose.
Bud, s years old, wanted to go to q
picture show. "Well, what would you
like to sect" asked his dad. Lets
go to Ten Nights in q Bare Room"
said Bud.
The agony Of the man who sits
helpless and inactive on his own front
porch waiting for the doctor to tell
him whether it's boy or a girl has
no counterpart among the emotions
which rack the human frame.
A young woman student admits
that the dress she will wear at grad
uation was designed for her when she
was in the Eighth grade. "0f course"
she says, sit will have to be short
ened."
We would like to know if the old
fashioned lady who wore a coil Of
wire around her waist and called it q
hustle, or around her head and called
it rat, would attend radio concert
whether she would be broadcast
ing or receiving station.
Johnny" said the teacher, "you
may tell us how many are two and
,wo." 1.-TWO and two" Johnny promp
y replied, "are FOUR "That is very
ycod, Johnny" commended the teach !
u. "Goodw said Johnny, cheek. Us
;erfect!p
John Robinson's circus is on the
Dad calling itself the greatest show
IN earth" 1t is not. But it was the
greatest show on earth on that day
n the '70s when we saw it for the
irst time. 1t never has been and
lever can be that great again.
Our notion Of philosopher is a
nan who can pluck sprig of mint,
milf it, smile in serene retrospection
nd go to his work with smile on his
and a song in his heart.
We hate crouch.
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An old timer recently brought to
MS office a dance program of 40
ears ago, which will bring back vi
ions to our middle aged readers. 1t
ill be all Greek to our present day
,x trotters. 1t included: Lancers, II
altz, heel-and-toe polka, quadrille,
Iewport, redowa, Partisan varieties,
acquet, caledonian, prince imperial
,dowa and medley. Them were the
avs. II
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A man from Arizona on returning
)me was telling of the crookedness
card playing, as practiced in Mon
ma. II was setting in little poker
me with bunch Of fellers up there"
drawled, when one guy parks
d of chewing tobacco in the middle
the table. Well, don't say moth
z. Then pretty soon another fell
: parks his. Still l don't say moth
z. But when q third does the same
ing, i gets .fretful. "'Say,' l says,
hats the big idea?' "'Pardner,' one
the fellers says, you don't think
IRE going to take no chances by
rning our heads, do your"
The kirk was in need Of repairs and
ndy McNab had been appointed to
lect the necessary funds. One day
J minister saw Sandy staggering
'ng the road. "I'm sorry to see 70
this state, Sandy" he said
weel, it's for the guild O. the cause"
lied the delinquent. aye see, NEE
ter, it's - through these SUBJ
iptions. "Ive been doom the glen
lectin' funds, an at every hoose
y made me hae = wee drappie."
every house! But surely, Sandy,
70 are some kirk members who are
totallers." "Ay, there are, meenis-
but / wrote tae those"
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lot long ago married couple with
-year-old girl movsd to town. It
, rather lonesome for the mother
she was not acquainted. In due
. tie ns9Abor. Woasn dropped in
her all in bunch They were we'll
uAintsd and called each other BY
II Arst names. 1t sounded GOOD
The lonesome mother. After they