Judge — January 16, 1932 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE HOME TOWN ITEMS (Cat Bricas’ latest scheme has backfired. He got his wife interested in reading so she wouldn't talk so much and now she reads everything out loud. Zachary Crump has dissolved partnership with Pythias Peavy. “Pythias was my pal,” Zach. “1 could al- ways count on him to stick me t gh thick and thin.” Zeke (“Goofy”) Hunnicutt hay a new scheme for in- suring an early spring. He plans to blindfold all the groundhogs so they can’t see their shadows. Sandy Campbell has been. practising false economy. He took such long steps to save his six-dollar shoes that he split his eight-dollar trousers, Unele Joe Tatum was the mainstay of the Confederate Army, to hear him tell it. He says the South would have won the war easy as pie if his foot hadn't slipped. Miss Burgie Bittle has become a professional soprano. She says she is singing to keep the wolf from the door. It ought to work. ¢ Ankle Weekly says: “Ike Hurley owes this 0 for advertising his punk tires and lousy expects free advertising, this is the kind get.” Squire Huflie made another important discovery this week. Ele says the Constitution of the United States is unconstitutional, Banta Payne “Got any lobsters?” PIREE , - SOUP comicbooks.com