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Show THE CITIZEN TRUCKEE HIGHWAY OPEN t THE SNOWMANS yearly prank in closing the Truckee summit of the Sierra to automobile traffic will be ' rn impractical joke this winter, to' In fact, the laugh will be on him even though he brings down the heaviest snowfall of record in an ef- fort to block the way. For automo- biles will continue to go over the mountain top without interruption if their owners care to make the trip. The Southern Pacific Company is now handling motor cars in baggage service on regular- schedule be tween Sacramento and Reno. Triweekly transportation of automobiles in both directions over the Sierra will be given until melting snows clear the highway for summer travel. Eastbound, the auto baggage car leaves Sacramento on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, returning from Reno on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Service was opened on Saturdays. December 26. The charge for checking automobiles as baggage will approximate 10 cents a mile, it was announced by the Southern Pacific Company. DOWN at Camp Taylor in 1917 a negro outfit was lined up before the clerk for preliminary paper work. Name and address, demanded the clerk of one husky recruit. Huh? What is your name and address? Yo ought to know, said Rastus. lYo sent fo me. Bessie, how many sisters said the lover IDogs do have understanding. Theres a legend about a Scotchman who told his wife that hed decided to give his collie away. The dog heard him, ran away and never returned. It came to me differently, said his companion. The dog heard the conversation, curled up in the comer and died of shame. Died of shame? Thats it. He realized that anything a Scotchman would give away must be utterly worthless. Salstaff Bulletin. Yes, of dogs. has your playmate? One, mamma. She tried to fool s, me. She said she had two but I guess she didnt know Id studied fractions. half-sister- THE AUTOMOBILE was a thing unheard of to a mountaineer in one community, and he was very much one day when he saw one go by without any visible means of locomotion. His eyes bulged, however, when a motorcycle followed closey in its wake and disappeared like a flash around a bend. Gee whiz! he said, turning to his son, who'd a sposed that thing had -- a colt? .T COMING upon a football which the farmers son had brought home from school, the rooster promptly called all the hens around him. Now, ladies, he said diplomatically, I dont want to appear ungrateful, or raise any unnecessary fuss, but I do want you to see whats being done in other yards. ajestic Hotel? he asked. ,$1.75. And how much for my suitcase? Oh, said the cabman, Ill take those for nothing. Fine! Take the suitcase. Ill walk. GLORIOUS MOMENT. By G. J. NEUMANN Sister, how Doth love begin? ' With a silence As of sin? I am 25 cents. I am not on speaking terms with the butcher. I am too small to buy a quart of ice cream. I am not large enough to purchase a box of candy. I am too small to buy a ticket to a movie. I am hardly fit for a tip, but believe me, when I go to Church on Sunday I am considered Road in front of Valley high school improved. Gunnison Springville 20,000 trout from local hatchery planted in South Fork Park City New boarding and bunk houses built at Park King mine. ALL THE cities in chorus; Dont settle down here to become like the others, young man; go where you can climb and be somebody. The end of love; mon crowd. QUEEN VICTORIA of Sweden was recently willed an island by her brother. NORWAY is its depression just recovering from following the world war. SOME MONEY! The beginning None knows of Are you the man who saved my boy from drowning when he fell through the ice? Yes, sir. Well, wheres his mittens? Only that You wake and are Like the haze Around a star. IN CHICAGO. First Safe-and-San- Well, Fourth er: of July is over. Second Ditto: Yes, theyve started in shooting again. CAMPING party is complete without one man content to do all the NO, work. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. .FOR instance, many a man is thrown on his own resources who hasnt any. Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. Chinese Proverb. Napoleon. - Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. Richter. ANOTHER thing the ultimate consumer pays without realizing it is the salary of the bill collector. San Francisco Chronicle. Cook Please ask play that (at house party) that young lady not to jazz. SWISS GIRLS are now allowed to enter England for a year to study the language. FARM WOMEN in Ohio are learning all about the parts of their sewing machines. Salina Local telephone company purchased by Mountain States Telephone Co. Complete renovation and replacement of old lines and extensions planned. miles Strevell Eight and one-ha- lf stretch of highway south of here has been completed. Brigham City Completion of railroad spur at this place celebrated. Sand and Silica Co. ships first trainload of sand. Eureka Big earnings are reported from North Lily Mining Co. From January 1st to September 30th this year. Gross earnings amounted to $853,072. America is a fortunate country; she grows by the follies of our European nations.- AMERICANISM: Yearning for a home in an exclusive neighborhood; being bored unless you join the com- , hats Brother, . as-.tonis- hed A SCOTCH gocery salesman hailed a cab. How much to take me to the M- TWELVE LINES youre right, said the colored BREDREN, preacher, you have come to pray for rain. Bredren, de foundation of religion am faith. Whar is yo faith? You comes to pray foh rain and not one of you brings his unbrella. 13 Junior Cook Why? Well, telephone wire to girdle the earth ten times will be added to the Bell telephone plant in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada during 1928. Eenough Less than one per cent of the telephone calls made in Chicago result in wrong numbers, according to a check made by the Department of Public Service of Illinois. Although women are now wearing of the clothes only about one-fifthey wore ten years ago, hooks in closets are just as scarce for th it's ruining the These are the doggedest days weve ever seen. Its so dull that even people with hay fever have lost the ambition to sneeze. Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Gibbon. SEEMS LIKE a man makes his best time when he is running into debt. L. A. Times. YOU CAN TELL about how a boy will turn out if you know what time The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded he turns in. by a poisoned arrow. SKINNER I do my daily dozen every day. Smart Well, I dont care, so long as Im not one of the dozen. Gunnison Checks totaling $225,- 000 distributed to local sugar beet growers. HE DOESNT expect to clear the traffic jam by blowing his horn, Its his way of swearing. highWork on east-we- st way through South Milford being rushed to completion. Milford THE TAOISTS of China believe that continually finding fault with the weather is a sin which will be punished in purgatory. He raced the train, Because he was brave. Now he wears a cross; But its on his grave. RAGS-RUBBERS-ME- Johnson. & SCRAP IRON TAL LARGEST DEALERS IN SCRAP IRON IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY Inc. Co., Utah Junk Our Specialty Carload Lots We carry in Stock at all Times: Pipe. Angles, Channels, I Beams, Babbitt, Rails, Pulleys, etc. 840 South 4th West Phone Wasatch 2069 ' |