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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, While other duck hunting fanatics fan-atics arc employing dogs, decoys, duck calls, guns and ammunition, and getting up in the wee small hours to pursue their game, Doyle Robinson lakes the easy course and gets his whole season's limit in one trip. Mr. Robinson was coming thru th Marshall tract the other night and boiling right along in his pickup pick-up when he came to some ponds of water by the road that had been left there by the rains. Ducks in untold quantities were parked on the puddles for the night and as Mr, Robinson approached them the car light blinded the ducks and they flew in all directions but mainly into his windshield. He cut a swath through the ducks like the Republicans cut in the Democrats, and when he was able to stop he had ten ducks in the back of his pickup, two on the seat beside him, and eight more festooned a-bout a-bout the lights and radiator like Christmas decorations. Mr. Robinson was well pleased with his bag, even though the pick-un pick-un will need new lights and a windshield. He has also bought a license and duck stamp so as to not fall afoul of the duck laws and such, and have the FBI and hordes of other law enforcement agencies about his ears. He figures that even though the truck has suffered considerable he has saved money by not having to go duck hunting like other men, and also he will save a lot of time. There is no record rec-ord as to what he did with the ducks. Ruth Done and her gun play, comes into the limelight again this week. She was entertaining company at her home when a weird howl arose from the back yard and Ruth grabbed her ever-present ever-present firearm and took off for the yard to do away with the intruder. It was a mother coyote and some pups, but Ruth missed for the first time in her life and the coyote is left to harrass the chicken flocks of the North Tract. Ferroll Walker knows just how she feels about it because on the recent elk hunt Mr. Walker misled four bull elks and came home gameless. Ike and Tanete Sorenson are trying try-ing to get a page out of Herman Munster's book on "How to Manage Man-age a Farm and Dairy Herd." Ike and Tanete were going past his place at 15 minutes to 12 the other day, and there sat Herman out in the corral with his head in his lone cow's flanks, doing his morning's milking. They want to get onto his system so that they won't have to get up early in the morning to do the milking. Of course, they also wonder if they must keep the cow on schedule and do the second milking at 15 minutes to 12 at night. There is no question but that Herman can set them on the right path and clear all obstacles and make their future farming a thing of pleasure, instead of being like it is now. Now the farmers are all down to raising their own meat, having all the butter they want, whipping cream, raise a row of beets and get a double sugar ration, ra-tion, and no work to do now because be-cause the rains have made it so muddy they can't get out of the back door. Oh, for the life of a farmer. "Smoke gets in your Eyes" was the theme of the Legion banquet held in Delta Monday night at the Hot lunch room. They were splurging splurg-ing with1 steaks for the members and the stove got to acting up and filled the room so well with smoke that George Cahoon reports he couldn't find his mouth in all the fog and fed his whole steak to the person seated on his left. He hasn't found out yet who it was that he fed it to, but wants to be repaid as soon as possible as he needs a big steak. George has been having to stand twice lately in the same place to make a shadow, and before be-fore winter sets in he would like to put on an insulating layer of fat. I think that the law enforcement oficers should get on their toes and do something about the IOOF. They are going to have a turkey shoot on Sunday, the 24th, wherein where-in men put up their money and take ashot at a turkey's head. If they hit the turkey and knock it into the next world the turkey is theirs. If they miss then the next master marksman takes a plunk, and so on until finally the turkey is done away with and another put in its place. Where the law enforcement en-forcement officers come in is one of the rules laid down by the IOOF to govern the marksman. The rule says "all breeches must be open." I hope the rule pertains to rifles, if not the officers should have the city hotels filled to capacity with the men who take the rule to mean otherwise. Until this rule is clarified the turkey shoot is no place for us girls, Toots. P. S. Alex Adams (D) is wondering wonder-ing if the election did take place last week with the disastrous results re-sults to Democrats, as has been reported, or if he has just had a bad dream. He and P. T. Black have discussed the merits of both parties for some years past, but up to date neither has convinced the other, nor have they brought mutual enlightenment to each other. oth-er. Tom Judd R) relates that the reason the Republicans won was that they were too weary and fee- ble to make more than one X. |