Show I Chatter after Box Dear Suzy While the cats cat's away the mice will play and never was the old adage more forcibly shown than when Bill ll Starley left for San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco last week The store clerks got together and hired Frank Bishop Bish Bish- op p p to build a new office while Bill vas as away and he did He tore up the old one and made a new one just back of the shoe department They have run Into some dif dif- Acuities with the new office in that they have room for Huff and his desk and Pratt and his typewriter typewriter typewriter type type- writer so Bills Bill's old desk and swivel el chair are not cataloged among the furniture fixtures A rather unique innovation is a secret door at the back of the office through which Huff and Pratt can sweep out the office Into the back room roomI I and leave the final disposal to the grocery clerks The secret door Is IsI I going to come in mighty handy in incase incase incase case the OPA CPA Is revived then Carl can give the high sign when the Investigators come in the front door and the men in the office can make a hurried exit through the thedoor thedoor thedoor door and away to parts unknown What to do for Bill is still a question among the clerks and are stymied as to where to put his desk and chair At present it Is tucked away in a corner with the worn well-worn seat of the swivel chair open to the view of the curious curious curious curi curi- ous public Of course Bill has in reality taken over Reeds Reed's desk and whiles away many a pleasant hour there so the real problem is where to put Reed They have a few days to iron out the problem and mull it over and you can rest assured that they will come forth with an answer that will astound Bill Reed and themselves Frantic smoke signals relayed from Sugarville and an odor of a burning manure pile bring the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing information to wit Tuesday June Hinckley fire builder extraordinary of the North Tract was reading Dick Tracy instead of watching what he was doing as he built his morning smudge and poured in a copious quantity of fuel oil liberally laced with gasoline instead of his usual potion of crank case The result was Instantaneous and deafening deafening deafening deaf deaf- ening with parts of the stove parts of Dick Tracy the funnies I mean and parts of Mr Hinckley's beard plastered in a polka dot fashion about the room The room was the pride and joy of Lois as she had had- 1 I just remodeled it with cream walls Jersey curtains and golden oak oakwood oakwood wood work Now it is a shambles shamble I and the walls have turned from Irom cream and give that effect of having havIng having hav hav- j ing a Holstein stand too close to them The curtains are no more I and the woodwork has turned from golden oak to charred oak Mr Hinckley made three mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes that morning 1 Reading the so-called so funnies instead of burning burning burning burn burn- ing them 2 Endangering his priceless priceless priceless price price- less B B. B O. O Plenty beard 3 Having witnesses to the debacle Had he burned the funnies first he would not have blown up his months month's ration rattan of Old Block and Tackle The names comes from the fact that if you drink it and walk a block you can tackle anything Secondly although parts of his priceless beard were blown off there is still enough left to give him the unimpeachable qualification tion of being the most disreputable looking man in Millard so that he can still get to the Shindig providing he doesn't build anymore fires and make a mighty effort for first place Having witnesses even though they are sworn to secrecy is a mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take in any company and all they ever do is make fees for attorneys and get one into trouble So in inthe inthe inthe the future Mr Hinckley should do like the normal man man man- mantet manet let tet et the little little little lit lit- tle woman build her own fires C. C D. D attorney and man about town is finding that the edict of the Lions club whereby whereby whereby where where- by all males must raise a beard or suffer the consequences is trying him no end He lie has tried and tried and has come to the conclusion that a beard it out of the question arid and has resorted to a lowly mustache mustache mustache mus mus- tache but even that has failed and Mr is at present as beardless as ns a babe and Ill I'll bet there are hundreds of women who wish their mustaches were as small and insignificant as his Well Mac thinks that the Lions ought to give even an additional prize to the ones they have listed bushiest most artistic and such and include a prize that will be presented to the one who tried the hardest Mac and the freshmen class boys would run a dead healin heat heal in this race On the other hand Leigh Maxfield Maxfield Maxfield Max- Max field Is the only one who has put his whiskers to a more practical use than scaring young children I Leigh went up to Springville the theother theother I other night to see sec th BYU play the theU theU theU U and as they already had a crowd of 2500 in a hall that held only 2000 people were being turned away In droves Leigh had no ticket ticket tick tick- et but a very nimble mind and tick tick-I he put It to good use I Brother said Leigh as he sidled sidled sidled sid sid- sid sid- led up to the window I have just come in from the sheep herd and andI I have heard a lot about this here basketball and I would like to see one of them The whiskers were all the Leigh and he really looked the part to I perfection The ticket et seller after saying NO NO to about people gave Leigh a ticket on the house and personally ushered him Into the hall so that he could see the game Others who went with him to the game had to be content outI outside outside out out- side while Leigh was enjoying I himself on the inside l Which proves that there ils more 1 than one way to skin a cat and I 1 belive Leigh knows all the methods methods methods meth meth- and he should put t them 1 m into practice more often Necessity Necessity is the mother mothe of Invention Invention in invention In- In Toots |