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Show Chatter Box pear Suzy, r ma Perkins, local housewife bicycling fan, has set a new an in women's sleeping gar-bV gar-bV having them knee length f ineed around the bottom. It tike hold here, and will cer-SSv cer-SSv do o if the enthusiasts fol- Velda's footsteps. lmt seems that the other night ," couldn't wake Sherm to go . and turn off the water in the l'u'h "o she had to undertake ,t chore herself. It was about 3 th m so she donned a bathrobe Lr her nightgown and took off. tl ng that she had to walk some STnr.e she figured it would be better and faster if she rode a S She climbed aboard and was merrily tootling along the side-Ilk side-Ilk when the going got rather rticult. She figured the the bike Seeded a good oiling and tried to go on, but it became even more difficult. It got so she couldn't go any-r any-r more so she tried to dismount I mm the bike but something was wrong and she was held firmly to the seat. Looking down she discovered dis-covered that her nightgown and bathrobe were caught in the gears and the harder she tried to get loose the tighter the gears pulled so that she was finally on her kr,ees trying to get free. At this hour of the morning very few people are moving about and she had no help at hand. She won (jered what Patriarch C. R. would think when he heard one of his daughters had taken to bicycle riding in the early morning clad i in only night gown and robe. She i aiso wondered what Sherm would ! think when he got up to no breakfast break-fast as his wife was still in the clutches of the gears and sinking deeper all the time just like quicksand. quick-sand. How she got free is still an unsolved un-solved mystery , but she did as Sherm got his breakfast and on Ann he hasn't been complain ing about having to sleep with his wife and bicycle. So she must have freed herself and turned the water off as she originally set out to do. I shudde rto think what state the nation would be in today had Paul Revere got entangled with a bicycle when he started on his famous ride. Also I shudder to think what state the nation is in today period. Quetta Ellis walked home from a car ride Sunday and she says it is the first time she has had to do that for nigh on to 25 years. And it was quite a walk. It seems she and Joe decided to motor about the countryside enjoying the sights and breathing the invigorating desert air. They went out on the west bench toward to-ward the Hot Springs and saw all the sights out there and then ate a lunch and started home. As they approached the project they saw the smooth looking mud flat that really invites one to give it a whirl, as they are smoother than the road and do save a lot of miles in case you make it across ac-ross one. So they took one of these flats to save a little time and get a thrill from the smooth ride. But like Velda, they hadn't gone very far before the going got tough. And soon they found that their car was floating easily in a sea of mud with nothing sticking above the goo but the radiator ornament, j A survey of their predicament showed that it was about useless to try and get out by themselves, and without the aid of a sky hook. So they figured they had just as ell walk back to civilization, or as close to that state as we of 'Nt Millard come. Joe always stays in good shape so he lead off with Quetta bringing up the 'ear. He took a direct course which went over flat and brush alike in 'the journey. When they came to any brush Quetta would hop it o as to not tear her stocking. Je says she went in a regular raience, one, two, hop, one, two, ee, hop, one, hop, two, hop, ee, hop, hop, hop,. As they came closer and closer to the fringes of ow flat she was forgetting some 01 the hops as well as her stock-ings stock-ings and was each feeble and more ieeble effort she finally gave up irely and just waded through brush and debris one meets hen out enjoying nature. Her stockings were now shreds !, ,s.he had lost 36 square inches "' Hide from her shins and feet ' me was tired-1 said nat je I I , .i lead and Quetta brought i ;! rear' wel1 fey this time not y had she forgotten to hop, for fm ! r stockings but she also "'got to bring up her rear and that "raeged too. But all bad things come to an end and after 15 miles of hiking they were back to the first house, full of desert air, sunshine but not full of vigor and vim. Joe took it all in his stride but Quetta is still suffering from the effects. She not only has her usual spring to her walk, but unless she watches her self carefully she is liable to add an extra hop or two as she goes about the store. Rube Turner, local retired farmer farm-er and former baseball fan, is supporting sup-porting a knob on his head the size of a grapefruit which he claims he got from watching a baseball' game He says he wishes they would strap the ball bats to the batters in the future so that in the batter's excitement of hitting a ball he wouldn't toss it into the air, but would have to carry it to first base to be untied there by the umpire. Somebody, claims Rube, bopped a ball, tossed his bat in the air and bopped Rube all in one op-, eration at the ball game in Hinck-1 ley on the 24th. At least he has the knot on his head to prove ' his statement, but the players report re-port no broken bats so I am not so sure Rube got smacked that way. Rube says-that if the players don't stop this practice he is going to start a movement to have the players furnish the spectators with hard hats when they go to a game and then they can toss their bats at random and at whom they wish. Ab Reid has been to Sun Valley and when questioned as to what he was doing in Sun Valley, quoth, our Mr. Reid, mayor of Abraham, and points west "When I was conscious con-scious I was sitting up." I was very disappointed in the grand entry at Hinckley the other night when they barred Hon Cropper Crop-per and his pint size pony. Hon says that not only did they bar him from the GE but also chucked chuck-ed him off the town board there for bringing a bad name to Hinckley Hinck-ley as being cruel to animals. It just doesn't seem right. Toots. |