| Show I 1 1 1 lmh iff 1 him in I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 if 11 I 1 11 I 1 11 III M in the bush beaque lea ue by W D BUSH J 19 N I 1 II 11 U T the other day I 1 got even with the telephone girls for all the times I 1 ive ve had to wait ten nun utes for the operator to answer or the girl has faiell to ring the number or they ve cut me oft off and left me talking to myself yep we re all even now the brat of the bush household woke up at 5 a m a babit habit be he sure didn dian t get from me and being as how we were in no mood to arise at that hour his ma put on his robe and slippers and let him get up when we finally got out of the sack the w hole house looked like the polls on wednesday morn ing all the records were pulled out from the radio cabin cabinet et and had been aroun into the rug pa pers were strewn about and a general scene of havoc greeted us in add tion he d found some candy some place and he and the dog had taken care to leave traces of it all over the place but after we had been up about an hour we noticed the prize stunt of it all the telephone was laying on the floor with ith the receiver off the hook I 1 dont know how many times the operator had said num her ber please NUMBER PLEASE but bet it was enough anyhow I 1 felt good about the rest of the mess and kissed the little chap tor for helping me get even with those switchboard beauties borall the times irked me now were we re even once more and can call start all over again this weeks 64 questions what local young widow was recently married to her number one admirer while back east what local soft water service operator went hunting for pheas ants on the opening day with two boxes of 20 gage shot gun shells when his gun was a 12 gage who was the local service sta tion operator who ran out of gas before he got back into tooele thoele and had to stop and bum some from a competitor 9 whoa after the election last week there was hardly a republican to be found in town in fact the party held a big rally in the telephone booth at tooele thoele drug jack t make any campaign promises in fact he t make any that we can find out about we all heard him say that he lie is going to work to get tofele tooele s highways fixed up and try to get some of the county peo pie appointed to various jobs it its S a good thing that jack didn dian t pro mise to get the toodie tooele bingham road through via middle banyon I 1 am enough of a citizen to figure that if jack said he d get it thru he would get it through and know ing how hard it is to get any help from capitol hil I 1 I 1 didn dian t want to see mr spending his off days up there with a shovel but if it means doing that ou can be sure jack would be up there digging away at the can yon one man in tooele thoele couldn coulden t make up his mind who to vote for out of lee and maw for governor so he wrote in a name whose was ita leo jex of grants ville sol selvin must have had some friends in salt lake city too as ten salt lakers cast write in bal lots for sol for governor I 1 believe by gosh he might have won it if he d run too imagination department imagine s surprise as he got up and nan ran out of a united nations meeting recently imagine the thoughts of the other dele 9 gates at es who feared he was leaving for good th s time but most of all imagine the shrieks of women in the place when he hurriedly dahedl into the lad es rest room I 1 wish I 1 could be as funny as james thurber who wrote alf life e tn in a putty knife factory my ten years As low man on a to tern tem pole and other books his latest is the beast in me and other animals what most people don t know is that james thurber is almost moally blind and has been in extremely poor health for many years some people have all the luck E ed d ketner local radio repairman was bitten by a cat thought to have rabies after taking a dozen shots in the and else where to make sure he become infected and after feeling like a doped turtle for a month ed found out the cat didn t have the rabies at all now hes he s trying to find the oat cat he ile wants to bite it back the latest what have I 1 said story comes from a friend in cal the young lady had just disrobed and was stepping into the hot tub when she hear footsteps coming up the walk at the side of the house thinking it to be the iceman and thinking she had hooked the screen door to the back porch she dashed to the kitchen to unlock the door so the man could leave the ice was she surprised when she whirl ed around the comer to find the gas man already in the porch reading the meter and was he surprised seeing her standing there in her birthday suit but her parting remark as she hastily retreated toward her bath was a clincher it was oh I 1 thought you were the ice man mam |
