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** Page 4°* ~ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, January 11, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH WHAT WUZ (T ve PSST ul YE WANTED, ( gzzz2 HONEY-POT ? 62°°" Bzzzz m7 THAR HAIN'T NO > Stew ¥- DRETEUL BIG RUSH, ; RIODLES, BUT FUST CHANCE YE GIT MOSEY OVER HERE TO TH’ WINDER-- th By Fred Lasswell GREAT BLAZIN’ BALLS 0’ FIRE! _ THE CISCO KID NEL HE KNOCKED THE ‘ VARMINT PLUMB HE) 2X INTO THE WELL! BRUISED BUT ALERT, MR. JAGGED DAGGER SCRAMBLES FROM TH WELL /NTO THE SECRET PASSAGE. IF YOU LOVE HIM, NOW'S yourR CHANCE TO PROVE IT AND UNDO SOME OF THE DAMAGE You've THE BOY IS SENSITIVE AND HIGH-STRUNG.,’ WHEN YOu TWO SEPARATED YOU NOT ONLY BROKE UP HIS HOME, Bur BROKE HIS HEART, ASWELL’ ie rsapeemescern : By Paul Robinson I WANT You TO Pu Jon RMS AROUND EACH OTHER ear ACT LICE ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY./--- SO HELL THINKC HE _J| HAS SOME ~ y— THING TO ip | road to knowle DocroR, ‘And Texas mene gece Come 4 QUICKLY.’ TS THE By George McManus) T ONLY WISH*ONE PAND MAKE A SOCIAL VIGIT TO OUR | THING --T HOPE i pres HERE HE COMES BACK.” I HOPE HE HAD A NICE SOCIAL VISIT- IT’S SO NICE TO HAVE GOOD NEIGHBORS - —— NEW NEIGHBOR DOWN THE BLOCK- T UNDERSTAND HE COLLECTS OLD OIIN'S AND ANTIQUES! — = | | | 1 % a tenes OUR NEW COACH, MISTUH — \ BONYPARTE BROWN, 1S TEACHIN: / US PASS PATTERNS WITH ie Me TH FANCY PLAYS WE OZARK AH SEEN LEARNIN: THOUGHT YOU JW 4 DINAH... | STATIONARY SCREENS ,MOV WOT SHOTS eo SCREENS, CROSS SCREENS, SWITCHIN SCREENS, “WOULD NEVUH Ve 9 2 PINISH’ PRACT IC ‘ . TNGHT? DOUBLE SCREENS...AN __ YUH KNOW WHUT... YOU WUZ RIGHT WHEN YOU SAID HE COLLECTS COINS - HE TOUCHED ME FOR FIFTY CENTS - AN! TH’ ONLY WHEN WE PLAY THEM LEAP FROGS FRUM UPSTATE,OUR OU DEPENDABLE HELTUH- SKELTUH OFFENSE IS GONNA BE wna O° ALL FOULED ' |) davs. When he does come, I want IThere Is A | Chapter 24 1 HE looked out at them for al long moment, and saw the), mingled emoticns or. many faces. Shock, incredulity, bewilderment. “I got the idea of takir- Pro- fessor Meader’s place so that I could chez. you. I ich into the trap of my own setting. But I think that ne, the rofessor, will be coming along in a few}: | you to listen to what he has to + to you, without discounting it ause of what-Fve said and be done. He’s all that I’m not.” “Then who the blazes are you?” | ; someone demanded, from a row near the rear. Here it is, he thought. Though ave guessed most of them mus* « | tensed as his eyes fixed on an- pther man, seated quietly near the sdge of the tent. A mar. who was} that di: that Timothy Meader himself should be here, in this audience. minor thing, and was probably] he A. least, the professor had not] shi shouted for the saeriff. Timothy | Meader, he was more than ever convinced. was quite 1 man. rything - ing his own downfall. There was a commotion near the rear of the tent now. but he raid it no attention as he answered. = “That’s a fair question. and I'll} 7" : ‘ ight arswer. I've ssl | “There he is. Sheriff! That’s him | —the outiaw known as Gentle- ¢n Jim Thornton!” ~“HE exclamation, drown.ng out | *® his own words, was snouted | from where a small group of men} tad th-ust inside the tent. They | were led bv Deal Hathaway already. He looked back, trying} had to pick out who had spoken, and] value. listening with an appearance of! Grink—and Deal ¥ auiet interest. even of enjoyment. olied him with mor For a moment, the surprise of] his tongue loosene sverv held him silent] babbled into the «or ; Somehow. this was tae last thing] that he wanted to | taat he had been prepared for—| armed with t cn His wound, of course, had been a] movement into whose avout healed now. his saloons and plac denounced him at the start, nor} pote HANGMAN'S COULEE By AL CODY rade ¢ suddenly be had been thrust. of t r in the town stood rhieemot av seized his arm and shoo want t ight now —un- <otten away nd prave it or isted hi rm Jone" Hathay got the yt ought * he pointed out rea- | (To be continned) of Santa Claus leads weaker Pride Of His Homeland By CLAYTON HICKERSON | IN TEXAS (® — Never let it be | fl | wave the Lone Star Flag when his | a yw }homeland. a teacher « said that a Texan didn't rise and after their expulsion from pa heart swelled. up with pride in his| met at length ne re allowed to build a temp'c Civil War, whose “After yc , _| Today’s Horoscope Today's Today favors : e development Anniversaries not neces 1757—-Alexander Hamilton, si ily in a school; but) one whe dier of the Revolution, Ne along the | die York lawyer, one of the frame:s There is a and deli-; of the Constitution, famous f i ‘cate conception 1e day favors: secretary of the treasury, born ‘1 | Lone Star Resident's a dual occupation, but in any| the West Indies. Died in the dt | Heart Swells With case, the native will dig deep with Aaron Burr, July 12, 1804 — Oo Cornell, Ithaca i fhe famous Black Stone of ¥ promoter of tele- 1= attributed, acco graphy, founder of Cornell Un ie end, to Adam and Parciter bee aoe Died Dec. 9, ! after devious 1813—Tuni: Mece lal officer, chivalrous hero of t And when some foreign colum- nist (name of Ed Creagh, in Wash- ington) tells a bewildered Virginia there is no Texas . . . Well. Dear Virginia: | Of course, honey. there's a palce | called Texas. A great, big wonder- ful place where the sun shines brightest when it shines and where the snow lies deepest, when it falls. Texas iis the land of manana, that great big place of the rock- Ed wants to go tomorrow. Texas is the place where they manufacture culture if they don’t already have it, where the sym- phony may come a cropper when a hillbilly fiddler makes his G-| string talk. It’s the place where the old cowhand may use a V-8 oil Virginia. He was just one of the thousands who got in early on the business Hollywood calls hers The business that Texans like Howard Hughes and Glenn Me Carthy support now. And don’t let any damyankee | tell you Texas is just a state of | mind, Virginia. The skeptic may as | | well tell you and me there is no | Santa Claus. There'll always be a | Santa Claus in Texas, honey, come |hell or the end of the oilman’s | depletion allowance. | Texas is no gag, either, child. Texas is as real as a_ bawling steer running up the ramp of a cattle car on the railroad which Texas money keeps running. It’s | as real as umpteen billion cubic | feet of natural gas that keep in- ‘dustry running in those bleak areas called New England and the Atlantic Seaboard . . . That keep! little girls warm on frosty nights. | And Davy Crockett a Tennesse- (an? That's funny to us Texans, | Virginia, Davy Crockett and Sam | Rayburn, too, were Tennesseeans | Before they came to Texas, but | who ever heard of 4 Bowie knife | in Nashville or an Alamo in Mem-| |phis? Whoever heard of such a thing? | Are the women all beautiful and the men all handsome? Well, Vir- ginia, not quite all of them. But Audie Murphy isn't the best-look | ing guy that ever came out of | Texas even if he did stand off | the whole durn Wehrmacht and come back to be a movie star. And | }such gals as Linda Darnell, Ann Sheridan, Mary Martin and Ginger | Rogers are living proof that the girls don’t grow very bad looking. | But the prettiest girls stay in , Texas, as you can find out by | Standing on the corner of any | |Main Street of any Texas city. | Of course, Texas may be tou dad-gum big for the United States, portsmouth, N. ‘H. Died Aug. but Texans are~ ge! And they didn’t take size into con- sideration when they let the union | New York man of letters join ‘em back in 1845. | So don't let the guys who ha never been able to lick a Texan 1942=<W lianas clamee. Gfani' lead you 2 Oil doesn’t print, only because there are so many hoofprints. But if your friend | New York. Died Aug. 26, 1910. have they really wish they could see a ae ee nice flower garden from their pic- \ture window. And we knew woman once who <4 and killed our two pigs.” are not swe pilot,” cost him his life, born nerous, honey. | 1364 25—Bayard Taylor, famo of his yeneration, born in Chestre Cc, ©) Pa. Died Dec. 19, 1878. Virginia } sh from every hoof arvard philosopher-psycholog: manifestation of America’s hig est genius in this field, born : Creagh, doesn't believe oil gets | 1379 _Alice Hegan Rice, Lou trees where every damyankee |i" the way of some folks, why he | vijle, Ky. author of “Mrs. Wig just doesn't know " of the Cabbage Patch,” 4 pe folks at Kilgore, for instance, | Ghatwviie NC Died Rea} tin their back yards, when } jg49 : i The first serious attempt to ce {struct an incandescence lamp ¢ pears to have been made about the year 1845, by a J.W. Starr of Cine cinnati a farm . “That old well ruined my peach. trees | instead of a cayuse, baby, but he’s Oe Vina Het : still as fast on the draw as Tom | cs ibd vaeg ats Vii ighie oan - Mix ever was. 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