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Show Chatter Box i jDear Suzy, It is now that time of the year when we stop and think of what we have to be thankful for. It is a trying situation for many of us to bring something to mind for which we should give thanks, so I will remind some of the local . stalwarts things for which they should be thankful, i The Republicans can be thankful thank-ful they won the election. The Democrats can be thankful they lost it. Orlin Hunsaker can be thankful thank-ful that I am not going to refer to him as "Dog." Bill Starley can be thankful he had his fence straightened up. Bill Bassett can be thankful that he has such good friends to give him a new hat so that he wont be "run in" by the law for vagrancy, vagran-cy, for wearing his old one. Sherm Little, Frank S. Beckwith, Thora Peterson and Charlie Hop-, kins can be thankful the water is out of the ditches now that a dunking dun-king would be a cold proposition. Returned servicemen can be very thankful they have "in-laws" to live with while they are looking I for a house. Wives of hunters can be thank- ful that there is only a month or i two until the end of the hunting season, and they can then renew acquaintance with their husbands. Husbands can be thankful that their wives aren't thinking up any new clubs to organize. We can all be thankful for the strikes because now that they aren't are-n't making anything, there is nothing no-thing to buy, and look at the money we can save. Homer Petersen can be thankful that Leamington is over the top in the Victory Loan Drive, leaving only the rest of west Millard to make the grade. Glen Crawford can be thankful he hasn't lost his pants (YET). Geese can give thanks that Scott Chesley has been laid up with a cold and can't get after them. Christmas shoppers con be thankful thank-ful they have 27 days in which to do the shopping they will do late in the evening of Dec. 24. Husbands can be thankful that the growing season is at a close and now their wives aren't trying to get them to do a little light and heavy spadework in the garden. Eight hundred seventy of our people can be thankful they outlived out-lived the effects of the deerhunt-ers' deerhunt-ers' dance. Taxpayers can be thankful the date for payment of taxes was put off for twenty days. The workers in the creamery can be thankful for the atmosphere in there that gives them that peaches and cream complexion that is the envy of all us women. I can be thankful that chivalry hasn't given me a black eye (yet), has given me a black eye (yet). There is a silver linine. Toots. |