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Show and I told a snappy joke to my partner. part-ner. They criticised it. Well, what about the smutty ones they told when they went home. Nice, ain't it. Lots of difference between snap and smut noon that two business men of Bingham Bing-ham engaged in a fistic encounter in the store of one of them. One is a candy dealer, the other a coal man. The coal man, it is reported, sold the candy man ten ton of coai. The man had it weighed and there was only eight ton and a bill for ten ton. The coal man came in. He was' asked to make up the shortage, would not, so started to take the coal back. Part of the bill had been paid and he asked for his money back. Turning around to wait on a customer the coaler picked up a candy Jar and hit him in the left forehead with it. The candier took a stick and raised h all over the coaler. It has come to court, so say the wise ones. Who knows. Business is business. (Editor's Note The above story is as it came to us. We mention no names in the matter. And as to the facts we know not, but as the gossip goes we write. C. W. C. stands responsible re-sponsible for having written it.) Several compliments were heard for this paper on Its last week's eight page edition but the advertising has not materially increased this week. The farmers say, well, if I lived in a mining camp I'd advertise, but down here its no good but in a camp where everybody lives so close to his neighbor neigh-bor that he seems like a twin brother it certainly would pay to advertise. We are informed that we misinformed misin-formed the public thru our columns last week concerning what a prominent promi-nent citizen said reEardins the am- i I notice that Bingham is infected with the same germ disease that infects in-fects every other community in regards re-gards to picture shows. Did you ever have the pleasure of attending a show without someone reading the titles out loud. It not a, pity, it's a pure, unadulterated crime.' One clerk in town reads only the Wise and Otherwise in the Bulletin. It never comes out without some criticism criti-cism from her. Why not get Masters to let you write them, dearie? Also this is the first time in the history of the Wise and Otherwise column ' in this paper that she has ever been mentioned. Can that be the reason for her .bawling us out as she does? There is a young couple in J3ingham above reproach. They are very nice people. The only thing we have noticed no-ticed that whenever they attend a picture pic-ture show, there is usually a big tall man sitting directly In front of the girl. The result is that she must necessarily lean towards her beloved dan so as not to lose her balance she must tightly clasp his hands. LaRt Sunday night there was a little girl in front of her, but the habit has been formed, and not that we don't agree, but you know habits once formed usually stick. We hope that next Sunday Sun-day night the big tall man will resume re-sume the same old stand. Ain't it funny how the world roll3 round? Politics is like love in some respects. re-spects. You never can tell. Did you ever write or tell a story, especially a funny one, and then have some girl in the crowd either ask what's the joke or pertly tell you that she hit her dad in the eye for telling her that when she was three years old. It's disgusting, to say the least. , Maybe someone else might appreciate appre-ciate it. Ah, shut up. One young lady asked the writer two questions the other day. They were, first, -"When is the last day to wear a straw hat?" Well, the writer knowest not; he has never been enough ahead to be able to afford one and therefore knoweth not. Second. ount of taxes Bingham pays. He states that he said seventy-two per cent of the Jordan school taxes and caused him X.o say seventy-two per cent of th total county taxes outside of Salt Lake City. Since printers and newspaper news-paper men are not angles, nor likely to be, we may be excused. If Ex-state Treasurer Kelly is so good in digging up old accounts of Mayor Bock's mis-appropriations perhaps per-haps he would be a good man to put in charge of a special audit of the old Citizens bank accounts. We would like to have an investigation on this affair, as to who is and to who was not to blame for the breaking of the old Bingham institution. Some people in Bingham are making political capital out of ths question and It Is only fair to have an investigation. For the information of a few of those crooks who have made bold to state that the Merchants bank of Salt Lake City was not defunct when it was closed, the citation made ,in defense de-fense of this statement is that the bank has paid off about 95c on the dollar and also' paid $100,000 attorney's attor-ney's fees. These gentlemen may be glad to learn that about $350,000 of this hard cash was forced from the directors in assessments, etc. If these gentlemen can see what the bank would have been without this $.350,000 perhaps they will get some idea of how near defunct it really was, regardless re-gardless of politics. (Wise andOtharwise (By C. W. C.) The editor of this column would appreciate if some of the ladies and gentlemen who are yjrever criticising this column would come in the office some time and write up a few themselves. them-selves. The editor takes the blame for everything that goes in this dope sheet; although sometimes someone slips in something which he knows nothing about, such as waa the case last week. Usually the custom in news rending if the shoe fits why put It on and wear it. But don't get the idea that you are the only people who wear the same size shoe. Try and bear this in mind and when you read anything give the writer the benefit of the doubt, he's not a Sherlock Holmes, and not knowing everything in town may perhaps sometime write something that's not meant as a slam at you. Smile! 'Cheer up! Don't be the chief mourner! Be a sport! The man hunter special arrived, as per schedule. Greetings, fair ones, greetings. d;nH351 C. W. C. leaves Wednesday night so he's not particular as to what happens hap-pens when the W. and O. column is read. We suggest that Brother Luck look over the ground that he is standing on before he tries to attack anyone upon the principles of their alignments align-ments in the campaign here hi Bingham Bing-ham this fall. For the benefit 'of those who are uninformed D. S. means Duck Si.ster. , Was in the show here one night, some married folks were behind me "What is a chocolate cake?" Well, a cake is a cake, and chocolate is chocolate, choc-olate, methinks that a conglomeration or the two and a little sugar would make a chocolate cake. Damped if I knoweth. Anyone wishing a nice quiet place to die and be buried in might ask their relatives to try Bingham. The following jokes were handed to C. W. C. last Tuesday by a very popular drug clerk with the request that they be published without any names being mentioned. The following follow-ing were clipped from the Druggist's Magazine. Ask R., she knows. "Hello," said Brown to Jones, "Haven't seen you in a long time. What are you doing now." "Oh! I've got a swell job," said Jones;1 "I'm working In a wholesale drug house. I'm the taster. I sample all the stuff that comes in.V "Does it pay well?" asked Brown. "Sure," says Jones; "I get $50 a week and two weeks vacation." Well," said Brown, "what do you d'o when a big consignment of castor oil conies in?" "Well, it in after that that I get my vacation." Exchange. And again. Teacher "What is an oyster?" Willie "A fish built like a nut." It came io pass last Tuesday after- |