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Show Personal Items It looks like anew as wa go to press, but it may be rata aobuddy can tell. Ham Wilaoa parehtaed a new stiff brimmer hat at Hen Waathersby's store last week for 65 cents. Hen had had this hat ia stock for 13 years and sold it cheap to make room for new goods. Ham aaya ha hatea to throw away his old bat which ha baa wore for seven rears, being aa ha hat become so attached at-tached to it, and that he didnt buy a pew hat bectu he needed it, but only becua it waa to cheap. Mrs. Heme Miller of MiltereviUe, who hat been visiting Mrs. Seth Dewberry, Dew-berry, wife of oar heroick town eon-stable, eon-stable, for tha last aix weeks, hat returned re-turned borne. Mrs. Dewberry aaya aha beyin to think Mrs, Miller was sever gang home. ' . . Bill Hepburn, oar trtistJck blacksmith, black-smith, had a bad attack of earache tother day. Bill aaid if he had of had a gal. of lieker he would of got full to drown the pain, - Mrs. Lem Brown, who baked s plum rdding on Christmas et the last of for dinner last Sunday. It seems it had kmd of petrified in the meanwhile, mean-while, and , when Lem. went to take a bite of same, he like to of cracked his upper act. Mrs. Brown give a chunk of the puddin to tha dog, who couldn't bite ft. neither, but took it off and buried ft, rabaMy in tha hop that it would metier ap m rinse. Lire-Green blossomed out at church last Sunday ia a brand new suit which he purchased at the Co. aeat It ia a good fit except the sleeves of throat and tha pants is too abort Wen Weathertbv says Lige ort to put soma sugar ia his sheas to eoas tha pants down. Hea is probably mad becox Lige didn't buy the suit off en him. Wee Woodruff, our expert hunter and trapper, had a baked porcupine for dinner last Sunday. Wee had heard somewhere that baked porcupine was mighty fine eating, so he had hit wife bake him one. Wes said it Was the first one be had ever tasted and will be the last unless he is starvin to death. Miss Phoebe Hildebrande while sewing sew-ing buttons on a shirt waist she was making for Miss Sally Hoskins, had the buttons in her mouth and aecidently awallered one. . Sally ia a good eal put oat beeux aba can't match tha buttons nowhere. . Gid Smalley had Hsrve Hinea, our tonaorial barber, to give him a hair rut lest Satterday and now Gid has a offul sold m his head which he ia afeard i will settle in bis chest before it gets through. Gid ort to have hsd more sense than to have had his hair cut in winter time rhy didnt he 'wait until warm weather? Seth Dewberry, our heroick town constable, hss lost' his badge some-wheres, some-wheres, he don't know 'where, and will kindly thank anybuddy to return same to him. Seth took hit badge off in Hen Weathersby's store tother night to polish it on his knee and he thinks when he went to put it on he didn't fasten it good and lost it on the way home. He says if be sees anybuddy wearing that badge he will arrest them for impersonating im-personating a . officer. |