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Show A bevy of pretty girls attended by a few young men were merrily entertaining entertain-ing themselves at lunch in a well-known well-known restaurant whon a business mnn Inquired: "What society Is that holding Its annual an-nual luncheon up there?" To which Facetious replied: "Judging from tho number of chickens, chick-ens, I would gather it is the Weber County Poultry association." Inquiry made of Walter N. Farr, county clerk and well-known poultry man, elicited the Information that the association did not hold Its annual luncheon yesterday. I Tho 1920 spooning season in Og-den Og-den is backward, as a result of the inclement woather, and crops havo not been plentiful, according to tho local park observer, who has just comploted his spring report. However, with warmth nnd moonshine, moon-shine, which Is expected during tho coming week, the new red paint on the park benches Is expected ex-pected to get Its share of work. Scientists are reported to be watching with Interest the result of "leap year" and figures will be carefully compiled as to the wear and tear of park benches in all parts of the United States. It Is predicted by thOBe highest In authority au-thority that entirely new settees will bo needed next spring and manufacturers are preparing for the rush of business. Stilts will be the latest spring fad In footwear If hopes of certain cer-tain Ogdon youths living immediately immedi-ately north of tho Ogden river materialize. One boy has a canvas canoe ready for flood waters. Speaking of floods, a youngster about 3 years old, apparently of Jewish Jew-ish ancestry, was playing in tho water of a gutter on Twenty-fifth street His "ma" came out of a second-hand store and addressed him thusly: "Veeshlc, get out of that water." And the water couldn't have hurt the kid a particle.' DIDN'T KNOW MM Officer Dick complains that well-) known customers of his fall to rccog-. nizo him without his uniform so he .put' his "star" on his suspenders while "making his old clothes do" during the time that he is painting nice white and red parking zones on the boulevard. Many anxiously await the next consignment con-signment of 16-cent sugar. WARM 'NUFF. Hot words between engineers. Causo of controversy unknown. Meaning of following statomont gucsse'd, but not fully determined. Imagine waving hands, heated countenances, coun-tenances, blasts of hot air, and then: "I don't care a dam site or resorvoir what you think you said, what you said was " j ! Is not Ford conducting an ideal plant, and .providing .Fords for the pleasure of the poor man?" asked Mil-1 ard Wherry in his salutatory address at the 0. II. S. commencement oxer-cises. oxer-cises. Well, Hlllard, for ourselves, wc shall agree to the ideal plant, although we haven't worked at the endless chain, but as for the "pleasure of a poor man" we are poor ourselves and we can't afford a Ford. |