Judge — November 7, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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mi AT X ~P il | SclicoL . 2 \ fe you never going to bring that 5 soon as I fix this carbureter. youn = A PROSPECTUS. S IS customary among publications," said the Cobville Scimitar, “ we will give a brief outline of what is in store during the coming year for our sub- seribers, as well as for the army of deadheads, embracing thi ous local preachers, the county correspond- ents that never w: , the relatives, the patent-medicine com- panies, and the skinflint advertising agents; also Hamp Logsdon and Bart Higbee, who borrow papers every Fri- day morning, regular as sunshine. * To begin with, the Scimitar will be enlarged from four columns, six pages, to six columns, four pages; and the type that Bill Dugan mashed with an empty whiskey jug last Christmas will be replaced by new material. As the ‘ Cobville’ in our electrotyped headline was thrown through the front window and severely dented when Roaring Bill Hemlock called on us the other day, the name of this paper in future will be merely the Scimita “Many new art features will be added, ‘The editor's picture will be run at the head of the editorial column, and we have secured a cut of the courthouse and the Golden Rule Store, to be printed on spe addition, we are consid- ering the purchase of a cannon and flag for the Fourth of July, and pic- tures of Abe Lincoln and N. Bonaparte, which, as is well known, will suf- fice for many of our lead- ing citizens, “Early in the new ™ year we will begin the publication of as of articles from the pen ie v jal occasions, In LEGAL STEPS, 3 AMERICA IN . that’s Harold Rich. Wish 1 had an aeroplan Yes, THE NEAR FUTURE. med merchant, Mr. Sam Potter, on * Well-known Custom- * The first of these sketches is* Dune Skaggs, it abounds with gossipy, little-known informa- the author declares that Mr. Skaggs has d 23,816 free prunes in the seventeen years he has vis Rule, Other articles in this series are‘ [Sill Beeler, the Man Who Will Pay To-morrow,’ and ‘ Elijah Boone, the Borrower of Tobacco.” “We have arranged with Colonel Ellerby Hawkes for a series of reminiscent papers on‘ Easy Marks Who Have Played Poker in Cobville.’. Other special features will be *My Wife Lifework," by Saul Lazie; and‘ Our Country—Can We Save It?’ a symposium by the schoolmaster, the colored Baptist preacher, the jailer, Uncle Silas Smith, and the hardware drummer that comes every Saturday. “*The usual interesting departments will be continued. * Our Noble Liars’ will, as herctofore, contain the choicest imaginative efforts of Colonel Tom Briggs and Tilkins, the lightning-rod agent. In * Heard on the Streets’ we will endeavor to print the of our est ers of a Corner Groc: the Prune Eater,’ an tion, stances oF name of pays us money or good, sound vegetables, —cord- wood, molasses, and tree sugar on subscription. ‘Halls of Death’ will con- tinue to print obituaries showing real sentiment and humor, but these must be limited to one page in length and to forty stanzas of poetry. “All in all, the Scimi- tar will continue to be the unterrified, unconvincible, incorruptible organ of the great, common people. Now is the time to sub- scribe, as we are needing the money. One dollar cash, or one-fifty where taken in farm and dairy Lov RoceRS products."* “THE SWEETHEART OF THE STUART B, STONE comicbooks.com