Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-10
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NICE htcCEerN, anyway
Mrs. f.. d. Jacobs introduced Mrs.
Arthur Schultz as director of the
Ten Thousand Club chorus at the
wcmens club federation southern
district beard meeting here Friday.
After the introduction she added, as
if in afterthOught
And her husbands at the county
farml"
The almost audible surprise of
hastily that Mr. Schultz is the
doctor in charge there.
You Aint Seen Nothin'-
u. L. Martin, whose business calls
him out at about 2 o'clock In the
morning, CHATS enough TO force RR
To take voluntary bankruptcy was
unbelievingly startled Saturday
morning when he happened to walk
around to the front of his delivery
truck. There, hanging to the front
axle was a row of bona fide icicles.
And this was at about 8:30--after
he'd been running all over town.
He's Not Lying
But Roy Wells tops them all in
RR 'Sestimate. He aWoke Saturday
yf1oAiing to discover that the pipes
connected to his automatic hot
water heater had frozen-and the
cold water pipes were in running
order 1t sounds little more sane
when Roy explains that the hot
water pipes run outside the house.
whilst the cold water ones are all
inside. AT that. the pipes had moth
ing on RR's toes and nose about the
time the alarm clock went off Sat-
urday.
While on The Subject-
Ed Nice-dont' know If he's re-
lated to Charlie or not--didn't give
his address, but if he'll call for
them, there are two theater tickets
and a membership card in RRs
liars club for him, all because Of
this communication:
why don't you tell the folks
how really cold it has been the
last few mornings? Or maybe it
has not been as cold in town as it
has been out here. Yesterday morn
ing was the coolest yet.
About o'clock I woke up, and
it was so quiet I knew there was
something wrong. AT four every
morning the roosters crow - but
there was not crow to be heard.
There was only one conclusion, and
that was that there were no roost-
ers On a chicken ranch. that is
something to get scared about. l
ierked on my clothes and started
for the pens, leaving all the, doors
open as / went Imagine my sur
prise when 1 got to the pens. There
were all of the roosters-and all
of them all right.
"They were all Hopping their
wings and throwing back their
heads and growing - but not a
sound! I thought my ears had
gone bad. Feeling pretty blue. l
went back to the house. shut the
doors and built fire. My wife
came in-and boy, wasn't I tickled
when I heard her say good morn
ing"
Imagine IltI clli pi ioC Will :.
rooster croWed on the table behind
her. She started to cuss me out for
bringing a rooster into the house.
when another crowed in the wood
box right beside her. Then the fun
started. The room was getting
warm. and all the frozen crows that
had floated in through the open
d, lrs began to thaw out. We hao
to leave the room until 1t got warm
and quieted down.
"Then a hen cackled on the roof'
This was wrong, for we keep them
in pens. I went out-and there
sat Hooch on the porch roof with
a rock, breaking up some more
frozen crows into cackles and lay
inc them out in the sun to thaw.
But that isn't ANYTHING 70 the
icicle on the end of Charlie Pitzer S
,pipe. When he put 1t near the
Stove it began to melt-and the
.darned' thing was cussins out a
mule"