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Show IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllH ill - Slot's Mule Sh I. BY ROBERT RIDING able to do fancy cooing." Observe the result of this one when the letter let-ter "g" was omitted. " The bride is twenty feet wide from buttress to buttress." A typographical error changed the advertising of Smet-anas' Smet-anas' book "The Bartered Bride" to "The Battered Bride." A wedding announcement had two people united in "holy deadlock." Similarly the addition of a letter often times has hilarious results such as "Try one bottle of our poisin and get rid of aunts." An Ohio paper had this one "Easter Matinee for the Kiddies. Every child laying an egg in the hand of the doorman will be admitted ad-mitted free." In an announcement of a social event, accidental substitution of the letter "1" for "d" turned a dull statement into the startling truth: "Mrs. Robbins, president of the womans club, announces that on Wednesday, March 15 the final meeting will be hell." Sometimes the effort to correct a misstatement makes the situation situa-tion even worse. A paper once printed an article referring to a man as " a defective on the police j force." Seeking to correct this in the next issue, the Daner said. We curred. Teachers will especially appreciate appre-ciate my next discourse, for it concerns con-cerns boners made by school kids in their every day essays and compositions. com-positions. Sometimes they are caused caus-ed by a wrong word in the right place or vice-versa. Here's some that are interesting: J Abraham Lincoln wrote the Get-teysburg Get-teysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. Many of the Indian war heroes were killed, which proved very fatal fat-al to them. What part did the Navy play in the war? It played the Star Spangled Spang-led Banner. They gave William XV a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry the beer. The watch word of the French revolution was Liberty, Equality and Maternitv. !5 Mayor Golden H. Black and Mor- !' '. gan Edwads were the main speak- l! , ers at the regular meeting, Sun- 'j , .day of Post 117 American Legion. At this time I do not have all of I' 1 the information of the speech that i Mr. Edwards made. But I will de-!'! de-!'! i vote most of this column next i. week to his talk. I understand it was very good. , ! Mayor Black told the members , at the meeting that he liked very 1 : much the ideva of two Legion Posts in Delta. He went further to say j that a good active Legion Post is i one thing that Delta needs. (; ! He said that during the war the City Council even had to erect the . Honor Roll, in the City Building, j because of lack of activity of the ! Legion. Jobs like those are prill pri-ll marily for the Legion to do. The City Council also went on record as backing Post 117's end- ; eavors to have three Carnivals here ' in Delta this year. That way all the money stays in Delta. The Carnivals Car-nivals will be run by the Legion. ; The only money that will leave Delta is the rental of the rides, ! etc. All profits will be spent on creating a better Delta, swimming pool, park, etc. In short; He, with , the City Council, is 100 percent ,j . i behind Post 117's activities and . their endeavors to boost West Mil- ' . lard. 1 i I Lots of times we are startled by . I misplaced words. We may know i t what the advertiser means, yet we j i are shocked to read what is there. I l For instance "WANTED a folding ' ji table by a woman with detachable i !l legs." The same thing holds true i i of this one "WANTED boy to J I take care of horses who can speak I i Greek." i i i Sometimes we see an ad such . I as this "SALE 25 Women's Wool i . i Suits $15.00. They won't last two i : ' i hours." ; ; Omission of letters at times ' 1 l 1 make humor out of an otherwise ,. 1 i : serious advertisement. Leaving the i letter "k" out of this want ad made ) : l it quite a laugh: WANTED ex- i perienced but young Italian girl i i: regret the typographical error that referred to Mr. Jones as a 'defective 'defec-tive on the police force.' Obviously Obvious-ly the sentence should have read: Mr. Jones is a detective on the police farce." Another paper wrote of the homecoming of a local war hero, referring to him as "bottle scarred." When relatives and friends of the vet came in demanding a correction, correc-tion, the paper printed: "We are I sorry and deeply mortified that we have referred to Mr. Smith as 'bottle-scarred.' We apologize. We meant to say 'battle-scared.' " We see things like this every day, and if anyone has seen any lately that will bear printing, he is invited to send them to me and I will run them in this column. If anyone wishes to contribute I would like to get the name of the paper from which the missprint oc- What did Paul Revere say at the end of his famous ride? "Whoa." I'm sure we've all seen or heard of such things in our own school days, and some of us have probably probab-ly written similar phrases ourselves. our-selves. Remember any? Send them in, we'll use them. Before I leave you I want to remind re-mind you that fishing season will soon be here. There will be plenty of fishermen ready to go on the opening morning. Plenty of experienced experi-enced sportsmen will declare there is nothing like mountain trout. Others praise the salmon. Still another an-other group insist that the best game fish is the steelhead. I say they're all wrong. For sheer tricks, fight and stamina, give me a small-mouthed lass at sundown any time . . . |