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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, Delta added another laurel to its crown the other day and set a new distinction for liquor stores, by having a Deputy Sheriff as the clerk. And so Delta goes down In history as the only town in the state wherein the Deputy takes over ov-er as chief despenser of refreshments. refresh-ments. It seems that Lucian Keller had a brush with constabulary about these parts and Jack Bennett went down to the liquor store to get Tom Judd for a character witness. Tom told Jack, that Bill Pace wouldn't like it a bit if he closed up the liquor store just for a small trial and so told Jack that he would have to tend bar while he was gone. Jack lit up a stogy and took over the duties but proved to be a very poor salesman because when the customers saw him back of the desk they decided that they had business far more important than going into that place. And so we 'find Tom showing a very poor report that day because so many took the cure. Looshs' predicament was that he got too high and flew too low and and theerby incurred the wrath of the local Mounties. It all happened hap-pened the Saturday night of the big rain when Loosh took off after beingasked to detain himself for a moment by Cliff Leavitt: Loosh was not in the mood to be detained de-tained and went anyway, but his driving was viewed with an upturned up-turned eyebrow by Patrolman Sherwood and the merry chase began. Loosh had the Buick revved up tothe point that Mr. Sherwood failed to catch him until Loosh ground looped at Silver City and ran off in the ran. Mr. Sherwood figured that another day would do just as well to get his man, and besides maybe another day would not find so much rain. But he did get his man later and that was when Tom was called cal-led into the trial. Tom proved to be a poor character witness and Loosh got the book tossed at him with the result that he was given nine months to think over the ride, with three months off for good behavior. be-havior. He is out on bond now waiting for an appeal and after the beets are in Mr. Keller may also be. Owners of the Delmart are either going to have to put in a furniture department or at least buy an easy chair for Mr. Stapley, manager mana-ger of sorts. It seems that Mr. Stap ley was attacked with a bad case of fatigue as he walked through the Chronicle office the other day, and seeing the easy chair in there he appropriated same ofr his own use. He pulled it over in front of the air conditioner, propped his feet up and went sound asleep. Things were quite dull in the office of-fice that day and he wasn't noticed notic-ed until 4:30 when the Boss went looking for the chair and found it occupied very comfortably by Clay. It took a quite awhile to awaken awak-en the sleeping beauty and by the time the Boss got him awake he was awakened himself and as Clay had the chair too warm for the Boss's liking the Chronicle staff went without its usual afternoon nap. Clay Siesta Stapley left red of face, but refreshed and his only complaint was that he had eaten too much lunch and that was what caused his vertigo as he passed the chair. It looks like the Boss will have to booby trap the chair if he intends in-tends to get any naps in the future. Toots. |