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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Things must be getting tougher these days from all the people who want political jobs. It looks as though about everybody over 21 is seeking office of some sort, and from the number of Republicans coming out of hiding after 16 years it shows that the GOP wasn't lost, much to Glen Crawford's discomfiture. discom-fiture. Glen has been going along all these years feeling secure in the knowledge that all the Republicans Repub-licans had been plowed under back in the past when they were paying pay-ing $10 for cows. Of course, Glen feels bad that he didn't fill his pastures then at those prices. But to get away from Glen and back to politics, I am really stumped" stum-ped" to find a reason for so many people wanting political jobs. All they ever get out of an office is a shiny seat on their pants, and a "political pod' th'at they carry through life. (The pod and not the pants.) They all seems to want to remind people to vote on Sept. 7, little dothey realize that by voting vot-ing in theprimary elecation about half of the office seekers are going go-ing to have to return to making an honest living. There have been several cases of mistaken identity lately that have been rather embarrassing to .all concerned. First Ruth Bishop was waiting on a strange woman in their store the other moring and the woman told Ruth that she had been waited on before by Ruth's son, little realizing that Ruth's "son' was 'none other than Van, her husband. Now Ruth is going to get a permanent, manicure, mani-cure, facial and stay out of the garden and quit doing contracting work for the neighborhood. The other case of mistaken i-dentity i-dentity was when Merlene Callister and her daughter, Judy, came in the Chronicle office to see the new pups. Fuzz was reading and didn't even look up to see who it was and thought it was his wife and Susan. Now Fuzz calls his better half "Skinny" and thinkgin of an errand for her to do called in a commanding style of voice, "Skinny!" "Skin-ny!" There was no answer and thinking that maybe Skinny was; getting out of hand he called a-1 gain and then looked around to see the why fors of no answer. He ' was confronted with a puzzled but pleased Merlene, who was puzzled for being addressed in such a fashion fash-ion and pleased because of the tribute to her figure. Fuzz is going to buy new glasses Merlene is going to eat what she wants, and the real Skinny is going go-ing to keep an eye on things. Quin Shepherd has added something some-thing new to his stock now and when one buys eggs there one can get them already hard boiled or as came from the hen. He was a little vexed at one of his patrons the other day who complained that there were two hard boiled eggs in the carton. The patron thought that maybe the hot weather had affected Quin's hens and she wanted Quin to put them in an air conditioner. Quin explained pati- ently that each carton had two hard boiled eggs at one end, but it was a gamble which end they were in. The patron was more in X the mood for fried eggs and told Quin to leave the eggs as nature and the hen had left them, and they would fry, poach, hard boil, sPeam or coddle their eggs in the ftttre to fit their fancy. Quin says theie is never any pleasing some people, and that most of them like . the chance they take each time they track an egg. If it is raw they ctyn use it to suit themselves, - and if it is hard boiled they can .make sajad. The Uth Liquor Control Com-mission Com-mission is jgoing to pipe the water from the Mbrtensen ranch right in . to the bottlg work and thus save a tidy ;sum..r-The reason for this demand for he water from the JWprtensen ranch comes about in this ,way: J. R., Ron and Mike Mortensen and Charley Thomas all agree on the following story, which if true, is jncredible, and if not true you can see that there will be no end of drinkers of the Mor-tnsen Mor-tnsen ranch water; Well, to begin they have pigs and lots of them on the Rancho Mortensen, and these pigs, like all pigs bear other pigs on occasions, so that they will have even more pigs. Now one the large sows had a broody look in her eye so they knew she was about to farrow. She did farrow 16 pigs on July 28. The pigs were all born dead and the sow didnt' lose any weight, nor did her faucets go down in size. Then, believe them or not, on August 26 she farrowed another batch of pigs, 13 this time and they all lived. Now that's their story and they are sticking to it. If it was just Charley Thomas telling tell-ing it I wouldn't take a bit of stock in it, but backed up by the Mortensens who have a reasonable reputation for telling the truth, one must consider its authenticity. The part about the story I don't like is that it may not be true, and then for once in my letter to you, I would not have been telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But before beleiving it, I am going to take a husky drink of the ranch water, just to be on the safe side, Toots. |