Judge — October 24, 1908 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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opp! ‘They fought and fit and fit and fought J did each other mining wh Vo get the loving cup. NOTES FROM THE BASSWOOD BUGLE. BNER TEETER, the day clerk at the huttel, has got a new A gold tooth, and his smile is some brighter than former. The last drummer who was through here took the huttel wel away with h to wipe their faces on the grass out in the back yard. m by mistake, and the guests now have Mrs. Hank Tumms iv takin’ in board and those who want to be took in will find no better place. Mrs, Tumms serves roast beef on Sunday, cold roast beef on Monday, beef stew on Tuesday, beef eroquettes on Wednesday, beef hash on Thursday, on Friday, and picked-up beef on Saturday. The huttel ain't doin’ much busi ial inf ney, most of the drummers are puttin’ up at the Farn ‘d barn, . The Ladies’ Aid S 'y will meet next Thursday afternoon to hold a sewin’ bee for the purpose of sewin’ a patch on the leathe bellers of the pipe organ. ‘The bellers leaks so much they can’t fur- nish much wind at this writin’, and Rev. Hudnutt has to preach two hours longer than usual on Sundays up the de- ficiency. Constable Ezra Hand says bridge whist is agin the law, and he is goin’ to stop it around these parts. He has been watchin’ all the three bridges over Swazey Creek, but ain't caught nobody playin’ whist on any of ‘em yet. Hi Bibbins expects to run a cane rack at the county fair, and has stole a dozen of his wife’s doughnuts to use for the rings. Jed Frink, our blacksmith, tried to pound one of the rings over the head of one of Hi's canes with a sledge hammer, but was unsuccessful. Jed says the public will have a fat chance to get a cane. f pot pie 8 now, as, on account of the finan to make RURAL dd Miss Pea beat that fe ‘e kin, b’ gosh t ur boardin® hos thinness over ter y Miss 1c makes beef soup fer us boarders by throwin’ a picter of a bone into a pot o° water. rerkins keeps a crock’ry chicken an’ gives us the water she bathes it in Hod Peters says Taft will be # good man if elected, and, by gravy! he will also be a good man if not elected, Th siderable sediment in favor of him around here, and his ¢! almost a 4gone conclusion, The Bugle has stopped takin’ second-hand tombs*ones on sub- scription. We used to crack the tombstones up and sell ‘em for huttel soap, but the pure-food commission has got next and it is all off. By gravy! it is gettin’ so it is almost as expensive to run a liner in a New York paper as it is to run a li 8 the oce Hi Binks says he would like to advertise for a wife, but he can’t do it for less than thutty cents. Hod Peters says if Hi would give up advertisin’ for a wife and advertise for a single woman instid, it might be cheaper for him. Hod is almost as comic as an almanac at times. Inadvertently by mistake last we balled up on a weddin’ notice. We intended to say t bins and Miss Mattie Tubbs, who was married, had been chums sin childhood. Our compositor set it up ‘*chumps."" We were half right at that, because anybody willin’ to marry Cal must ha a chump. is con- ction is k the Bugle got considerable Cal ‘b= KOY K. MOULTON. Hewett ONS VERDICT OF ‘THE PHILISTINE! “An* spose they accept it at the academy Me with it Pa (first stepd—* Why, hang it, of course. do with in?” Ma—**" Lectrocute it, maybe! What'll they do What dye think they'd IGNORANCE OF OUR CUSTOMS. “ HAT caused the hitch in the the f Miss Coynerox by asks one inte progress of courtship the duke party. “He got the father didn’t hi explains the other. “But couldn't he matter up?”’ “He thought he trouble look the The the the old ring. off looked eo just aft was he ax duplic! man had finished swe hi jessment."" REFLECTIONS OF A PHILOSOPHER. a false ble to truth unerringly, and a chap with false teeth is a good eater, but you want to look out for the fellow with the false tongue and imitation smile. Y" can't comicbooks.com