Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-01-16
Crabbscrawlings

If you don't mind, think I'll poem Leel one
coming on. 1t is entitled
OH HAPPY DAY
How dear to my heart the scenes that were
In front of my vision just yesterday noon,
The merchants across my horizon were dashng'
The song of manana was far out OF tune
The bridge at Barelas structure of beauty,
At last it was finished and open to au'
An army of men reporting for duty,
Whenever Sidney would send out the call
The Chamber of Commerce had reached its full
The two thousand members were in and paid up,
No one in the village was there who e'er wrote a
Note TO the editor embittring his cup
The Rosington Rattlers on Central were running,
with never n turn to the right or the left
The afternoon batter had long ceased its cunning
The editors column was strangely berert'
The bonds Of the Journal were safe withthe buyers,
The Dawn of the Day thing magnifique
Our prominent gentry longer were liars,
The lamb and the lion were equally meek
The village was paved with substance enduring
The valley was drained.-there stood the hotel
But friend bumped the chair on which was
And visions dreamed of were all knocked to
WESTERN HOSPITALITY.
ALBUQUERQUE WELCOMES YOU
TO EsTANCTA 81 MILE
Sign East Central.
FOR SALE FOR MONE1S,
On q chicken coop in Dogtown.
A physical culturist in Chicago advertises that
he makes men and women thin to music
Somehow other we bad the idea they wanted
to be made thin to observation.
Strange things are thrown up by the wash,
Ours came home last week wrapped in an old IRE
ducibe that made no attack on either the Journal
or its publisher
r. PERRY SCOPE OBSERVES:
When man makes practice of signing all
three of his names it looks if he is trying to lean
on somebody's else reputation.
Death wouldn't be had if it wasn't so darn per
manent.
The ex-seryice boys might we'll dub it the Sol
YOU NIGHT TRY YOUR LUCK IN HOLBRooK.
Sir: Is there hope for the common geezer?
For years he has had his leg pulled against his Will
Now the Wisconsin supreme court decides that n
if done in the practice of his professional duties
COB PIPE.
MARY'S MENAGERIE.
Mary had little cat,
1t swallowed ball of yarn,
And when the little kitties came.
They all had sweaters on
Frank Tinney in Tickle Me-
o o o
A less prominent gentleman Of our village, in
him without peer in the state
somewhat on the or0ef OF the EarelaS bridge
so NOTICED IN MY LAST PAY ENVELOPE.
Sir: Were you aware that the $4,000 Federal
Reserve notes bear picture Of S, P. Chase?
TELL ED
DWELL ON THESE A MOMENT
One hand in the galleries clapped once.--Jour-
He was watching Dan1 with chuckle in his
eye.-Coers
Hunters are fined for shooting duck without
license.-Journal Headline
FOR SALE-Corn fed pork. Whole or half
hog. Half will average 70 pounds.-Journal
The estate Of Sen. Penrose is valued at 100000
and upwards, but friends say it is worth many
times that amount--Chicago Tribune.
o o
THE PRINCE ENTERTAINs THE COURT.
Prince Alfonso Louis Jerome de Bourbon was
run down by motor car in NYawlt recently, and
was knocked cuckoo. This is the first on rec
metropolis since the beginning of the Volsteadian
era.
DUNNO!
This worse they write about the trees
That whisper nothings sweet anad low
When they are bending to the breeze,
That may be good, but
/ dunno!
These odes to spring, a babbling brook
winding way, hanging snow,
An autumn leaf, lonesome nook,
May be all right but
dunno!
The love that comes when all is still.
And stalks about and smtes you SO
You write poem from the thrill,
That may suit you, but
/ dunno!
like the verse that has some kick,
That hits you mighty blow
This airy stuff somehow don't stick,
may be wrong, but
dunno!
o o O
One OF the arguments against Harvey Fergus
sons Blood of the Conquerors' is that it is his
torcaly correct Yet. on the other hand as one
discerning gentleman remarked
what, in New Mexico, America either fol
that nnattnr "a hist nrica llx cnrrect ~