"Has Got" Is Good English

"Has Got" Is Good English.

Another language saver has launched his boat. "Is 'has got' good English?" he writes. "Should not 'got' be omitted?" For the three hundred and thirty-third and last time we say that "has got" is sound, correct English, good historically, good in modern use, a perfectly healthy idiom. Anybody who has scruples about the "got" can cut it out. Anybody who has a taste for prunes, potatoes, prisms, can learn to break himself of the habit of saying "has got" if he perseveres. We seek to put no constraint upon the tender consciences. But abstainers from "has got" should be warned against being puffed up. Fresh English is always good, but persons who like it canned are welcome to take it that way. They mustn't put on airs, though. -- New York Sun.

Mrs. T. Armbruster died in Bridgewater, aged 83 years. The funeral will be held tomorrow from the residence of Fred Mahrle, and the burial will be from Bethel church in Freedom, Rev. Paul Irion officiating. She was a very estimable woman.