Judge — August 5, 1922 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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BAY STATE TOWN SCOURS SWAMP Noise Nimrods Sounds Like Irish Bombardment Undue Moisture Said to Have Brought Big Reptile Now Nationally Famous By W. M. ITOUGHTON Special Staff Correspondent-at-Large EWARE, MASS.. June $1, 1922 B Every day here swells the number of those who have seen the alligator in Dismal Swamp. Most of them are out now hunting him, and the constant pop. their artillery plus the unmis takable dampness of this place would remind one of Treland, if it’ werent for all this talk of reptiles. Never in the memory of Rufe Jordan, whose last name, they say. suits his rolling gait (he’s often called Tin’ Rufe), has there been a wetter June hereabouts. Rafe is one of the cighty-th inhabitants who have sworn before Editor Deerfoot, of the Evening Snooze, that he saw the alligator. He has lived in the same place on the River Road going on seventy-six and an authority weather and other natural phe nomena, both on years is considered on account of his and length snee and use there isw’'t anything going on in this neck of the woods that he doesn't know about, having a nose for and things that rhyme with it. news So this is Dismal Swamp FOR ALLIGATOR from Weapons of Local WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD H E CLAIMS there is a direct conr tion between the record degree « moisture for the mouth and the pi of the alligator in Dismal Swamp, since the first. condition an alligator before he'll agree to advertise a town is the provision of a tank or tanks (Ed. note —pools?) at or near the Slough of Despond, or whatever the local morass is known as to which the boys wander on off days. He's a fairly regular to Dismal Swamp himself, Rute more regular of late than ev during the month just AG more tanks (FE not there than he remember seeing before, just the kind an alligator would dote on, full, and gloomy, with unkempt fringes and a heady odor. would suppose, he says, that the Club or the Better Beware Asso- nn had planted them there on pur- pose, seeing how the alligator has put the town on the map, but he more than sus- pects the kind offices of a sort of promoter whom he saw get off the Montreal-Boston express here the other night) with alligator skin satchel and a knowing lo The town fathers, he thinks, once they had seen the prospectuses carried in this visitor's satel id become imbued with his spirit gave him a contract to boost makes visitor pools?) an the town. At any rate, according to Rufe, it wasn’t but a or two later that this visitor introduced into” the Village a motor truck full of tank material, enough to float an alligator as long as from the pump to the kitchen, “Well, ure you going to catch him: asked the old vet. At the Building and Loan by Thomas J. Murray ( FTTIMES a gaslit room in’ some drear hall, \ bookstrewn table past a flimsy rail, O'er which a voice will call, The se pale And monotonous: where numbers of the stock; ged faces marked by life’s harsh es that show where tides of sorrow Ande Are seen; attendance that must never fail, Till that: red-letter day debt. that blots) the And here is Youth with eager hopeful ze across the intervening years, Where dreams of radiant promise ever rise, Beyond the slowly fading gray fron- tiers. A place towards which financial pilgrims press, ‘To find a haven in their far distress. Huge alligators alleygating “Ketch who? He's a revenooer him- self.” he says. “Tm talking about the promoter.” [ said. “Oh, him,” he says. the alligator, not “sure! It's con- ss ues abs How Main street looks to shum people High Brow—TVhat girl over there seems to have an inferiority complex. Low Brow—She should worry, so long as she has that superior complexion! te Gaybuek—Are you going to tell your wife that you played poker every night while she was away in the country? Gayboy—There'il be no need to tell her. The gang made a lot of marks on the center table and burned three holes in the big rug. tots The girl a man should marry is the one who does not make him feel as if he had to pretend when he is with her. comicbooks.com