Pondering Snuffy Smith

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2013-09-10.

Just to get it out of the way, the joke is that the Smifs will fight and so the sheriff will be called out to break it up. That's not important though. What I want to know is, why is Snuffy advertising his family reunion? Who are the ads for?

If he's just hoping that his family will see the ads and show up, he's left out some important details. Like the location for a start. It doesn't specify his address or even his name, so they'd have no idea which Smif's house to turn up at. So it's obviously not for them.

Is it to warn the neighbours? Snuffy hates one of his neighbours and the other is his best friend whom he sees every day. There's not really any need for signs posted up everywhere. but I can't think of any other possibilities. Who are the signs for?