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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 1928 | | LATE DAY THE MAYOR NAMED THE ART || THATS A HOT WHY ALY NO, HISTER [ 1 GUESS 1 WNOW BY THORNTON THE CHEERFUL CHERVB QOMMIISION WHICH WILL SOON DECIDE ART COMMISSION FRANK EVERS |[Evers AnT mmso}' .‘%"."."i‘?fl | L h tH ; ¢ | THE MAYOR |S ONE OF TH' ¥'. BURGESS | & or———— | UP WHETHER OR NOT THE STATUE OF CLARICE . | [Sleap comes and blots 4 HEGINIS. DONATED BY THE UNITED ORDER of [[APPOINTED: DID noaT ARTISTIC | N out WANDERERS WILL BE ACCEPTED By THE ||YOU SEE TH NAHES) | LITTL GUY. Chatterer Has Lively Time. | terrible claws roaching for him. Hix| |en Y go B CITy OF CHICAGD. THE NANES OF THE en? WHO ARE You EVER AW, S o ok o5 wmere el Iang, | ONC 1dEA WAS to exeape those. He landed | For hours there isnt i : $T€C FoLLOW THEY ? TAKE THIS || coMe oW, 1 Doth of his for Tose commant on a stick which leaned out over the coMmMy R MED PRA EVeRS WANT YoU any me. Old Mather Nature water. He ran down this and jumped N . y for What he took to be a stump. You [IVe triad to Find ovt 2\ .+ Frep scHeel || FOR INSTANCE - To MEET Hin Paddy the Beaver held his breath at | see, he only looked long enough to sce he 1 7 Lk WHAT DOES HE ®hat he saw. Al the vere instant that | What he was jumping for. He was really where | go By Franw Evers || WIHAT Q00 {rying o look behind him at Redtail | |[But just cant stay PoP MOMAND * o~ CHARLIE GRANT Chatterer Squirrel leaped fr atterer the Red Squirrel leaped from, i "y wk His idea was to dart around Dick UTTIE the end of the little log ating in |, | Paddy's pand, Retail the HARE swooped | L0, (N other side of that stump. and O 1€€ METCALFE .'r (;}:HI'U‘NY Paddy heard the whistiing of the wind through the wing feathers A ) . " ump was a_ good one. He | of Redtail, From his position In the |, TR Tt "uier stump. s S Art There. had to him as if Redtail | rjont and then he got the shock of his A hd caught Chatterer, and for just & LEnt 4N then he kot the, shotk % [t I s lfe. Instead of landing on wood he landed on something covered with fur. He landed on & black, hairy cont It it a question which was the mos! then he was sure he could dodge Red- - : Not Much / Chatterer didn't startied--Chatterer or the owner of ) j that black, hairy coat ¢ Y | stay there, No, Indeed. Chatterer didn't ; . stay there. He jumped again as quickly | b tflf i i [ ™ as ever he could. And the instant he | i i A‘Ts jumped the awner of the biack, hatry| MR BATES YV —L i , coat jumped too. Have you guessed whe | M , ~ = "r” i MY OLO 3 / JEAH , BUT HE it waa? It wax Cubby Bear, Yes. sir, it s — s wAe = ’ 5 was Cubby Bear! Chatteter hed mis | : & DY MAN SAvs \ A% 5 ! 2848 1 AT ~ .,«' taken Cubby Bear for a little black i [ I 1 eoTTA : ' GN b OLD ENOUGH O W stump. You seo, Cubby Bear had been | \ § QUIT 5MOK . sitting up, back to him, when Chattere: ! / — » 30 i g » Ay Wt we | Jumped 8y ot i i MATCUES Now for just an instant Cubby waz' S.LHUNTLEY Py quite as startled as was Chatterer. But & 5 the instant he saw Chatterer, Cubby ( ’)\‘\/ Gy bacame angry. It often makes folks | : angry to be frightened. With a growl 4 N that made Chatterer shiver all over H Cany o s for him not to play tricke on . IT 18 A QUESTION WHICH WAS THE R o bby. “You think Such a Trial, MOST STARTL s 3 11 show you that T'\EAC . A rou'r v felt very bad inde " Chatterer didn't wait to be shown ed that Redtail c® He dodged. Quick as he was. Chbby ing his way up into t was almost as quick. One of those stout empty elaws i little paws of his all but came down on f . Chatterer. Chatterer dodred again. So n '<-"ifi Pafiri‘ r ooked - gid Cubby. Back and forth, this way over to see if he could see Chatterer gnd that. they dodged. Then Chatterer anywhere on the shore saw his chanee and ran up a e birch rer I t tree. It was a young birch. Jt was ton his one t ha 2 birch for Cubby to climb ¢ t It was A birch that £t0od All | o, e o t erer ran to the very TSR T [ TRy - R s ‘snet ol i | MUTT, DID | THERE You GO-Ybu AIN'T WHH'S THE FAVORITE | WELL, A STRAW VOTE ve re- e knew that Cubby couldn't possibly BABE RUTH GOT NOTHING: BUT BASC BALL | 1 ™He BeTTinG, || N NEW YORK GAVE N w5 r{:éf;{. follow him there. Then he zl“n\rrflfln‘x‘ GeT AnsTHeR || ON YOUR BRAIN, (€ ANY ! Hermie or ALZ /] AL A PLURALITY OF 3 \ “"RNN [ You THINKING WHAT THeYY Do wiTH er hastily to see what had become of Red- WHY DOA'T You THIANK OF Rl -t /| Two6 MiLLish.e AND 5 s\‘;es s \ ABout 2 ALL THe STRAW €S : tail the Hawk. Such a relief it was to Home RUN | - . cover that Redtail had gone off about UTT Vesterbay?/ BIG THINGSZ (s YouR | A STRAW voTE 1N s i | AFTER THey TAKe hit business without stopping to find P/‘ iR ¥ | ( Chatterer | hit what became of ChACIRrer AL ey ) Sl gl : - \Q“«se STRAW VOTES! P WHAT ARE (r WAS JUST umbemu?‘ sole thought was of those Gosytlknt. 19281 G"d 1 | ReAuzE THAT THIS HERB THe SAME — st P v R R | COUNTRY 1S GOMNA _PLURALITY 6UT THeRe! Abe Martin Says: [[ITTLE BENT\"‘T .Jf’f A e R IDER ) e IN NOVEMBERT 34 RY LEE PAPE BUD FISHER Last nite pop shined up hie fishing pole for about 2 hours on Account of wunting to go fishing this morning, me saving, Can 1 go with you and wateh | What Can vou, pop Yowd never be able to drag vourselt . You Expect out of bed that erly, pop sed. The na- Pives around here teil me that the Iocal | From a Dead fish bite best just as the sun is peeping B 2 over the western horizon, I mean the rain ; castern, ixcuse me, Im a stranger in these parts, he sed | Well 111 get up. pop. wat time? 1 sed and pop sed, Five 30, and 1 sed, Tl | be_reddy. Ixcuse me wile I sinile, pop sed. | _ R : 40T A SORE e cot ’“? érfiume! ¥ COTTA GET HUM® - -~/ farmer lady to get me up at 5 o'cloc RECOMMENDATION FROM THE MANAGER OF AN EXHIBITION GAMC WITH US ToMORROW :nflcflh;‘r:“:‘rr:‘_ f:rx:: nlmkr(\;:;‘ ;t!!;r : - THE SCRAMSBURG YeAM — HE THOUGHT AND I NEED A Goon BOXx MAN TO TIME, = ——— IN SHAPE shaking my bed and then she was shak DENVER HANDLE BABE PUTH! GET IN UNIFORM FELLER (I HAVE 8o SOME How ! ing me, saying. Up with you, step live- | > CouLD USE A | |an' HAVE ONME OF THE o) CAKHER'S Iy, I haff to get about my werk | - Heh? 1 sed. I think Ill change my | > GOOZE\"/ Bovs HELP You (A 5 B 4 QL mind, I sed. and she sed. Well then PrrcHes WARM 1P THE OLD il 9 | e « | voull change it out of bed and my con- | § : WING i MR AT scients will be clear | : p f = Say what vou piease about home. it's| And shpnnw me a mixture of a pflush § ’ C &t p btk &t th* word wi ¢land a roll and I landed on the floor A : = : % th' only place in th' world where they' gjmost haif awake. and I started to put | seem t' know how t' cook string beans. | on my stockings and then I thawt, G, I Coprright. 1928.) | better go and see if pop is up. o— sl \:’xch I did snd he was stll asieep ! . and looking as if that was all he in-| | The Bxg Sendoff tended to be, me shaking him till he O | opened one eve and sed, Wats a trub- | ble, wats wrong? Jabez Jinkens planned on starting | Its 5 o clock, 1 sed, and pop sed, Well E . for a village far away, and we spoke | Who ced it wasent? S Xpensive . " % | e terned over on his other side f about the parting with a sigh and lack- | gyp g bump and T woke Him up agen Practice! aday. He had been a friendly neigh- |saying. Well G, pop, gosh, how about | bor, he had lived among us long he fishing? =~ s e o " ow sbout sleeping? pop sel nd | had buckled down to labor with a smile | , FOR P07 FCCHINE. PoR side agen and cheery song, =0 we spoke about hi¢ | and I went back to my own bed not going with a sadness bieak and :rim.‘;r"llr;u exter snrr.\'h n;;‘d the next time “ it & woke up it was half pass 9 and pop | ——-s—ssea— ganized & party in his honor, ere he | ororor NE BEEN HERE| | TRy-Ts OTEL Courst | [TRANK GOODNESS 1M Goma TLL GIVE Y0U | | MAKE IT Two — | FIVE DAYS AND | ‘) QP THE ROAD - NONE 1O KNOW WHAT |IT FEELS fwo STROKES | 3ISQUES AN’ ) BOUT CATC A FEW ? ——__ i di ve it, ven | pe et bed T asked Mre. ‘Merfy ‘the Y NAME'S RILEY = THiS 15 A LETTER OF WHAT LUCK ! THe NN VANKS ARE PLAVING CEY i'ub‘“‘Ap g HIN' | I | areat! 1 went: and in language strong and 3 e | FEEL TOPAY | | PLAVED 36 hearty we addressed that worthy gent. | “‘- . 11 | THIS COURSE IS BUT VERY OLO PEOCLE LIKE 0 AT A B3A LU PLAY you | | | | PLAVED 3 illie Willis ’ L 00 | Ly hoces"Boay i 1 for al Loy { T - [ D ot b an v | S0 CROWOED i1 SO HCTE — |Fo@ A oLcAR) P s s sppufmg twaddle who'd decry his kingly - 1 RAVEN'T BEEN THEY'RE 100 OLD J o .. | A noLE oN Worth. Then this Jabez was presented BY RORERT QUILLEN. | ABLE T0 PLAY | LT PLAY GOLF | ¥ }c X / with a watch of gold-fililed case. and : / s a lot of tears were vented from the " ANY GOLF _J | = ¢ R (= eves that lit his face. Oh. we lavished | | e Y 7 | HOTE on the fellow every mark of love we | | |01 z-senne ¥new. and we all were feeling mellow ' — when the jamboree was through. Then | the days went rolling by us, since we | couldn't nail them down, and our | thoughts were scarcely pius when we saw Jabe still in town I've deécided not to le; Jabez Jinkens then explained, “knowing it would pain and p grieve you the poor old chump Never Too remained. “When you came and made | your speeches telling how you. looked | on me as the best of human peaches, T decided not o flee We should all be glad and beaming since he chooses tn ren but we say that he was scheming the time for sordid gain g he may do can save him from yaches dark and dread. and the B ich we vt Dim—he B8] 1. say Mrs Jones scratchin’ whan e WALT MASON. | she ieft our house, an’' T bet she's the | Y POl | W 2N oo fleas I had hox MY POP EIGHS I — - SRR il s S oot WEIGHS \\ figfi:ne ‘(flx::‘s SAW A M:m SuAT'S o T T N p— 'RED AN’ | | WEIG (EGTERD) POKER PORTRAITS—Preoceupation. By WEBSTER | Vonreenr || LA ] TWO TENEIGHED A A LOTTA . \ e — EIGHT! A WUNRED! PricE oF Apensiiens L [ 8O- gegme ) | e oo e ||| loncy | PAY YO FOR Cobyritht. 1438 one that got m Heavyweight Champion. FALLINE V€, TEe T 01 0 VA Tar. | 4T T AR ”j oe Cries? g AT LA T BT o~ ( a7 g sy R ¥ : - r = orasosa e s - [ IRRER, AT MAKES OM | DREAMT LAST RNIGAT ) [ WELL . F'\L SEE DREAM SUCH THAT | WAS WORKIN' AN’ \F CAN § | QUEE THINGS, w\’rv' AN’ W&R\E'N‘! SEEMED *rulAw LIL'Tm( ) N bl " f : ue.qm CHOPPIN' ALL NIGHT# COME TRUE, DILK ! | | ~ vou Y . , : ALBERTINE THA Y 5 e 4 R JDALL He Dreamt [, That He Dwelt in Overalls!