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Show f ! The Slopville Center Weakly News Two passengers got off the nine ten on Saturday night. Asked as to what, they thought of our enterprising citv they said the first sight of it reminded-them of Omaha and the smoll confirmed the sight. Lew Tompkins has begtin to part his hair in the middle, have his shoes shlned at the hotel every night, wear a hat, and most unbelicvnble of all, he decoratos his trunk with a collar and a tic. Mind your step Lew, and what's her namo? Evcrott Levins was down from Punkhole last Friday on a business trip. He says lifo in the city of his birth is going fast and furious these days. Thoy havo a plcturo show every ev-ery third Thursday of the month now. The children of tho Methodist Sunday Sun-day school had a swell time at their Christmas entertainment; there was a tree and lots of candy and a real live Santa Claus and tho minister was just beautiful in his reading of Thc Other Wise Man. Little Dot Perkins who dotes on the minister says she didn't know there was another wise man in all tho world besides her dad and the minister. The fellow who left the cigar on the editor's desk on Christmas morning had better not come round for a week or two. Aftor recovering from the effects ef-fects the editor sought out his old gun and finds that his sight is as good and his aim as straight as in the old pioneer pio-neer days. Mary Sassoon is back from a six-months six-months special course in music at tho Baweton Conservatoire. We think that is how they spell it. Her brother Tim says she Is always talking about obley garters now and ho suggests on a day or two before Christmas that if sho had any money to burn she might forget about tho Obloys and buy him a pair of Bostons. He thinks the latter keep his sox up best. i - Manager Smith of the Opera House Is putting some punch into his now job. Ho has arranged for a road show at the end of February which he says will be tho greatest sight ever seen off Broadway. Tho play is entitled "A Girl's Cross Roads" and he says the play will mako this town talk for the next five years. The Husband's Union regular meeting meet-ing in the Red Buffaloes Hall next Thursday night when the subject under un-der discussion will be "Tho Miseries of a Well Fed Man" by a Sensitive Soul. Attorney Siinson is home from the county seat with a great story about absent minded Judge Bottom. He says he and the judge spent tho night In the same hotel and occupied the same room and the next morning when Slmson arose he couldn't find his shirt for any kind of currency. Mrs. Bottom telephoned to tho shirtless Judge this morning that the judge had arrived home wearing two shirt3 and she had found by delicate questioning that Mr. Slmson had occupied the ;imo room with the judge of famous action who on a fornior occasion when departing for a vacation kissed the do-pot do-pot agent and gave his wife a quarter. |