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Greeley Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Why not insure in this Company? They are the most reliable and cheapest Company in existance. Also Wind and Tornado Insurance written.

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A Spring Hope.

Th« buds have started In to shoot

In field and park. My only hope for spring Is that They hit the mark.

Another Last Straw.

"Doggone It!" mutters the meek man. "How now!" we exclaim, horrified. "What means this unseemly near profanity?" "Why, dadblast it!" he sputters. "My wife has had all of my night shlrta hobbled!"—Life.

Satisfied.

Rastus—I see dat bank dat you had youah money in done fall. An' you waB expectin' six per cent, off dat money, wasn't you?

Sambo—Don't you knock dat bank Dey dun give me six per cent, ob my money back Jest as soon as dey busted!—Puck.

Just Adapted.

"That rooster play In New York certainly has Btarted some nonsense. Here Is the sewing society wants to have a barnyard entertainment to start an aged woman's home." "Well, why shouldn't they? Just th« idea for a lot of old hens."

More So.

Kicker—There is nothing that makes a woman so happy as to get a $4 hat for

$8.85.

Snicker—Oh, yes, there is. Kicker—What? Snicker—To get an $8 hat for $7.89! —Puck.

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HIS WASTED I EFFORTS

If Pearlle Fattershall had told him to shave his hair in tufts and to walk down Main street on his hands and his heels in the air Tom Flanz would have obeyed her.

At least that's what everybody in town said. They also said It was perfectly ridiculous what a slave a man could make of himself just because he had fallen in love with a girl.

That fall Pearlie began raving over the football players on the state university team, whose pictures were in all the weekly papers, and what made it more serious was the fact that Ben Hrllt, one of the town boys and a rival of Tom's, was on the team. Tom shivered to think of the holiday vacation, when Ben would be home and Pearlie could worship him in person.

Tom realized to the full the vagaries of the feminine heart. He knew that mere worth did not count against brass buttons or brawn and Ben Tlrlit certainly had plenty of the latter. He looked like a young ox, Tom bitterly reflected, gazing at the football team as pictured in the window of Peterson's drug store.

Every time he went to call on Pearlle nowadays she recited' the football scores to him and inquired If he didn't think the run that Ben Tirlit made in the last game was perfectly wonderful! She said she just loved athletic men.

That settled It. Tom Flanz was built on fat and bulky lines, but if Pearlie liked 'em athletic, why, athletic he would be. There was something heroic about Tom Flanz's whole souled sacrifice of himself. What he really liked was a big plateful of buckwheat cakes for breakfast and an easy chair and riding instead of walking, but he held grimly to his diet, religiously swung his Indian clubs, painstakingly worked his patent exerciser and walked five miles a day. "I'm training down," he told Pearlie Fattershall with pride. "I really have got a lot of muscle!" "Have you?" she asked, absently. "I shouldn't have thought It. Did you ever play football when you were at college?"

What chance, Tom Flanz reflected desperately on the way home, had a fellow tied down by business against a great lazy loafer at school, who did nothing but chase a football over the ground? Then he redoubled his exercise.

It was such a serious matter with him that his friends began to take an interest. They all knew that Tom was Immolating himself because Pearlle Fattershall liked athletic men. They took a personal interest in his cutting out Ben Tirlit. and when that young gentleman came home at holiday time and took Pearlie to the dance they were indignant They considered that she was playing unfairly.

But Tom kept on with his exercise and his diet. He began to grow thin, naturally, but that did not eatlsfy him, for he yearned for the bulk and brawn of Tirlit. However, he could not have the bulk without achieving it by fat, and this worried him.

He read all the sporting pages of the city newspapers In order to enliven his conversation by scores and gossip and thus prove to Pearlie that he took an abiding interest in athletics. Instead of being Impressed by this she took it as a mr.tter of course. "People do like sports and athr letlcs," she sighed. "Did you happen to notice what the last football score was?" "I can lift ten pounds more than any other man in town," Tom told her one day late in the winter. "Can you?" Pearlie asked politely. "What's the use?"

Tom Flanz's jaw dropped. "I—I thought you liked athletic men!" he stammered out. "You're so crazy over the football news and Ben Tirlit and things like that. 1—I've been trying to qualify, Pearlie. I knew you wouldn't like me just for myself and I've been working hard at athletics this winter. I can't play football, but I can do lots of other things!"

Pearlie Fattershall looked at him with startled eyes. "Do you mean to say," she began, Indignantly, "that you've deliberately gone about getting thin and scrawny and like a pickled chicken, as you have been lately, because you thought I'd'like you better? My goodness, Tom Flanz, I like you heaps better when you're fat and comfortable, and I don't care if you're athletic or not! Why, you—are you!" "Pearlie," breathed Tom Flanz in a voice broken with emotion, "why the dickens didn't you tell me that early last fall? Think of all the buckwheat cakes I've missedt"

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She—But, George, you could never support two. He—Well, I'm only looking for one. —Newark Star.

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The man I know I ought to be

When I can give to other men The credit that to them la due, Though they may be my rivals: when

I cease to fear, though none pursue

Then shall have the right to preach To those less glorious than I Then shall have the right to roaoh

To angnls leaning from the sky.

Merry Name.

The Honduran soldiers stood on a hill. "Hurrah for Santa Claus!" they shouted, excitedly. "Hurrah for Santa Claus!"

The moving picture man stroked hii chin. "By jinks," he said, dubiously, "those fellows must be crazy." "Not at all," laughed the young oaptain. "They are so happy they have things mixed. They mean Oen. Ohrl». mas."

Amateur Maohlnlsts.

The motorist emerged from beneath the car and struggled for breath. His helpful friend, holding the oil can, beamed upon him. "I've Just given the cylinder a thorough oiling, Dick, old man," said the ljelpful friend. "Cylinder!" said the motorist, heatedly, "that wasn't the cylinder It

my earl"—Tit-Bits.

Silsas—It oertalnly is jfellow will go ter th'

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the 'Man Eating Turk' really

come from Turkey?" asked the stranger at the wrestling bout. 'No, pal," whispered the diamond bedecked promoter, "he came from Beef Corners, Me." "Then liow In the world did lie get the name of Hairu?" "Why, his first name was Uriah, but he turned it around backward to give it an oriental flavor."

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English Tourist—That fellow over there Is th$ most wonderful guide 1 ever saw. I was with him In a caravan that was lost in the desert for ten days, after which we put this fellow In charg$, find in less than two minutes he set us down in a big puddle of water, wonder who he is?

American Tourist—I know him. He used to be a New York street car motorman.—Puck.

Useless Talk.

"How's business?" said the man In the barber's chair. "Oh, I've plenty of it, but

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is unsatisfactory." "What do you mean by unsatisfactory "Why, you know, I shave the men up in the deaf and dumb asylum I Yonkers Statesman.

CHARITABLE.

queer that a city without

jf.nough money ter pay his way. Right {here in this paper it sez thet a counjtrytnan wu« taken in by a confidence iman.

His Fortune.

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First Burglar—Stung! Second Burglar—This Job cleaned up on the Inside.

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First Burglar—We'll have to start a bank ourselves, old pal. The thing la done differently now.—Judge.

Forbidden.

"I suppose now the sentimentalists |Wlli start a campaign against enllsi :$ie Interest of the tffchoola in golden rod as a national flower," "Why should they ofipose It?" "Oh, on acoouht of Kb

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"I understood this new reporter down on his first assignment." "So he did." "What was it?" "The baiiarvt peel on the sidewalk

Not 8o Muoh.

"It Is a far cry, Isn't fy, from a saJjon and a carouse to home and a

'•No, It Is a v^ry nqfir ojy, Jf the ibaby happens to h.ive the colio."

The Nelghbora.

"I thought you \fcefS ^olny to put some money into hens this spring?" "Wei), don't you see me making a garden?"

Certainly.

"Yea, he has quitte a reputation aa a wit." "Then, of courait, people laugh at everytnlng he says."

Prejudloed-

"I can't endure tie Glimmers." "Why not?" "They always call a summer house kiosk."

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HAMLIN

Miss Meta Haahr spent Sunday at home. Edith Pindell is working for Wm, Peppers.

Peter Shymp is working for Nels Rattenborg a few days. Gill Petty plowed corn for II. G. Rice a few days last week.

Geo. Robertson was an Audubon visitor Saturday evening. Chas. Higgin's mother arrived Thursday for a short visit.

Mies Ball departed tor Des Moines Sasurdoy for a two months stay. Jacob Rudolph was on the market with a fine bunch of hogs Friday.

Chris Christoffersen and family spent Sunday at Nels Mortenseu Sr. Frank Godwin of Greeley township was a caller in Hamlin Monday.

Wm. Olsen and family visited Monday evening at the Andrew Mickkelsen home.

C. L. Cbristensen bad the pleasure of a visit with his daughter from Atlantic Friday.

M. E. Mortensen and family spent Sunday at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Ilans Aagaard.

N. C. Molgaard and family spent Sunday at the home of their parents, Hans J. Hansen and wife.

Charles Stanlay and Vern Adams attended an Ice Cream Social at Greeley Ceuter Saturday eve.

A small party attended the birthday Saturday of Miss Hanna Mortensen, it being her l5th birthday.

Anna, Lillie and Augusta Hansen and Bertha Brandt spent Sunday eve with Luella and Myrtle Lastine.

Nels Morteusen Sr. has been on the sick list for a few days, but was out again Monday iooklng around.

Bert Young is working for K. W. Mullenger and Louie Slayton is working for Chas. Higgins a few days.

Chris Peterson, Chas. Stanley and Lester Layland were Exira callers Sunday eve. What is the attraction boys?

John Eagen and A. K. Nelson daparted Friday morning for Co. Blufis on business returninag Saturday evening.

A number from hare attended a party Sunday at Soren Petersen's west of town, all reporting a fine time.

There was a small touring party on the streets of our little village Sun day eve takiDg in the lights and looking at the tall buildings.

Joe Wheeler is hauling cream on Ronte 2, the output of the Creamery making it necessary for both Fred and Vern to Btay in the Creamery.

Store Phone No. 187 Residence Phone 114

Day Phone 10 Night Phone 4

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