Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-17
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from the
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following displayed in their columns
IN last weeks issue:
Dan Gethers was one of many
colored boys to participate in the
Selective Service registration on
the Eastern Shore in October of
1910, when nearly 5000 registered
in the two counties of Accomack
and Northampton.
Gethers' home was in Sanford,
Florida, but being in the county
working on a truck, he reckoned ne
better sign up-so sign up ne did.
Some time later, at his home in
Florida, members of local board
told Gethers he looked like a fit
+. specimen and asked him If he had
registered. He had, he told them,
but had lost his papers. "Well
where did you register?" he was
asked. "I Jest don't remember"
ne answered, "but it's something
like Tempusville, in Ike and Mike
county, Virginia"
The Florida board sent an in
quiry to Richmond and this week
d. Frank White, clerk of local
board No. for Accomack county,
received a letter from Richmond
headquarters, viz: "The best we
can figure out Tempusville in Ike
and Mike county, is Temperance
righ right 'N
Right they were! Ike and Mike
could be Accomack!-and Tempus-
Vile could be Temperanceville!
Now, the Virginia publication
needn't think it has all the smart
folk in the neighborhood. There are a
few just across the line into Mary
land al the following will show:
A small boy rushed into one Of the
Pocomoke City drug stores, not long
ago, and blurted out
"Say, gimme a cake of that back
and belly CASTLE soap" He wanted
Bocabelli's preparation, and he got it.
And it's remarkable how many fun
ny things these druggists get hold OF
in the way of requests for remedies,
the names of which are not always
familiar, and have very little associa-
ton with the matters Of every day
life. Many amusing mistakes occur
as witness the following:
A child, all excited, rushed into a
drug store and called out: II want a
collar bone for my birdl" Of course,
YOU will understand that he wanted
a "cuttle" bone for his warbler.
A few years ago, a druggist show
ed me a scrap book he had made by
FASTING in notes he had received from
patrons who, apparently, did not have
time to go after the articles them
selves, but sent one of the "Kids."
And, speaking Of kids, one of our
druggists, who is very Familiarity
known as Doctor" and who very Of
ten has to subscribe for people who
are ailing, had the following exper-
fence: An old negro went into the
store and asked the "doctor" to fix
him up. OF course, some diagnosis
ives necessary so the druggist began
asking the old man questions
"Uncle, how do you sleep?"
"Mos'ly on nah side, subj"
"Well, are your bowels regular?"
"Yassah, mos too riggler, suh!"
"Do you have to get up nights
with your kidneys?"
"Nossah, dey's all growed up now,
and =. and Liza gifts to sleep!"
With such satisfactory knowledge
as the practitioner gained from his
patient, he was, of course, able to
prescribe intelligently. He gave the
"cullud pussin" some bread pills and
sent him on his way rejoicing.
The druggist, however, is not the
only one who experiences the humor-
GUS side of life. The court room fur
nishes occasion for many a laugh,
which the austere Judge has to sup
press, both on his account as well as
that of his audience. Not long ago, in
one Of the magistrates court here, an
Individual Of the African persuasion
was on trial for stealing chickens,
which charge he stoutly denied. The
Judge sternly looked at him and SAID:
"You say you've stolen no chick
ens?"
"Nossah!"
"No geese?"
"Nossuh!"
"Any turkeys?"
"Nossuh!"
discharged" concluded the ex-
aminer.
AS Sambo stepped down from the
witness seat, he was grinning, and
as he looked up at the judge, he said:
"Boss, I sho' was skeered tub def
YOU all'd ask me sump'n bout ducksl"
Inasmuch as golf seems to be TAX
ing hold on the community; and,
in case any enthusiast is looking for
a eaddy, would recommend him to
adopt the plan followed by q certain