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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1910)
que I A ARE NOW IN READINESS , ' - There are Many Advantages in Making Your Selections Early THE NEW ON 3rd Floor OPEN. IS NOW Come and bring the little folks to enjoy the Christmas playthings. Bee one of the brightest newspapers in all Texas, and make Fran citis as famous as East Aurora, Atchison or Emporia. finest of linens. We hope the railway postal clerks are properly grateful, and that they will hand Mr. Hitchcock all that is coming to him for his munificence. ' - A national bank must renew its charter every twenty-five years. In a few days the First National Bank of Lincoln will take out its third charter, which means that it is soon to enter upon the forty first year of its existence. All of which reminds us that Lincoln is acquiring age. It is pleasing to note that the First National Bank has prospered with the city, the best evidence of which is the magnificent new building that it is erecting at Tenth and O street. Some men are born conversationalists ; others are born listeners. The most eloquent listener I knew is Dr. P. L. Hall. There's a man who can sit longer and; say fewer words, yet express more, than almost any man I know. Once in a long while he will unbosom himself and tell a friend some of his early experiences, nd when he does the listener always hears something worth while. If you, want to hear a really interesting story of a young physician's early struggles, just get next to Dr. Hall and have him tell you about his early experiences as a medical practitioner in Mead, Neb. And if he overlooks the little matter of the chalk marks on the floor to represent partitions that wrere not there, remind him thereof. That Vwill be one of the most interesting parts of the story. 1 I SOME SHORT ARM JABS' V It will be' a merrier Christmas for more people if you do your Christmas shopping early." , The inmates of an institute for the feeble minded will never be helped by a feeble minded spoils system. Anyhow it is quite likely that the first Tuesday in January would be entirely too cold for a barbecue on the state house grounds. The applications for appointment, not the abstract of votes, will truly inform Governor-elect Aldrich of the number of men who voted for him. , How grateful the railway postal clerks ought to be to Postmaster General Hitchcock. Isn't he the real Santa Claus? Hasn't he come to the financial rescue of the underpaid and oferworked postal clerks? To be sure! He has divided up the appropriation for the traveling expenses of the postal clerks, and as a result of his figur ing the postal clerk is allowed 6 cents for each meal while on duty, and 7 cents for each lodging while awray from home. Just think of how the postal clerks will revel in high living. Juicy porterhouse steaks, pate de foi gras, brandy pudding with hard sauce, terrapin, eggs on toast, potatoes au gratin, two kinds of pie, after dinner coffee and a perfecto cigar. Then a downy cOueh covered with the Speaker Cannon was roundly cheered when congress opened last Tuesday. All of which reminds us how inapporpriate it is too grow hilarious at a funeral. - The man who has no sidewalks to clear off is always very anxious that the city authorities enforce the ordinance requiring the snow to be removed instanter. ' ' Rumor has'it that W. D.. Mellugh of Omaha is to be tendered the appointment as justice of the supreme court of , the United States. This has led some Nebraska newspapers to state that Mr. MeHugh wras once appointed to the'position now held by Judge W. H. Munger