The Current Scene. In San Francisco, Mrs. Lucille Riquard testified that her husband had punctured 55 cans of her rationed fruit and vegetables. She won a divorce.
In Chicago, Mrs. Nellie Vileta, freshly divorced, told the judge that her husband had swiped her false teeth and used all the meat coupons for himself. She got the teeth as alimony.
In Kansas City, Walter Solt, who had had trouble with the maid service at his hotel, was fined $1 for taking his jampacked wastebasket down to the lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's desk.
Coeurs de Marbre. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Deputy Sheriff Cliff Johnson responded to a call at 6 a.m., hurried out to a narrow country road, broke it up between a couple of motorists who had been refusing for twelve hours to back up for each other.
Deduction. In Los Angeles, Arnulfo Perez reported that two men had hustled him into a black-paneled van, driven him several blocks, taken $9 from him, and thrown him out. Perez added: "I knew then that it wasn't a genuine patrol wagon."
Nuisance. In St. Joseph, Mo., officers at the county jail were bothered by telephone calls from somebody who offered, for a suitable reward, to return their watchdog.
Loud and Base. In Berkeley, Calif., Mrs. Edith Bell went to court for an in junction restraining a couple of her neighbors from making faces at her dog and uttering "loud noises of a base character."
The Struggle for Survival. In Kimball, S.D., Clarence Bely was kicked out of a barn by a horse, presently tried to show friends how it happened, was promptly kicked by the horse again.
In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground.
In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes to see who it was.
The Answer. In St. Paul, Mrs. H. J. Buck finally got a letter from her onetime sweetheart who had vanished. It read: "I am still looking for a job," and was dated Sept. 21, 1911.
