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Show ABOVE THE HULLABALOO County Chronicle tARSON PETERS ordered one of those new recording machines from the catalogue so he can broadcast broad-cast his sermons from the radio station up in the city by transcription transcrip-tion Sunday evenings and attend the watermelon supper at the Hungry Hun-gry Hollow church at the same time. Last night he recorded one of his favorite messages on the contraption and decided to play it back to see how it sounded. Mrs. Peters says it put him to sleep. Homer Caruthers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Yancey Caruthers of Drownin' Creek, has accepted a position as private in the U.S. army. Miss Susy MacFlirt, daughter of Filthy MacFlirt, has given up her position in the perfume shop in the city and returned to her chores on her father's pig farm. She says the smell of so much perfume got her down. . The phone company is trying to track down a regular, 5:00 a.m. caller of Mayor Ward Heeler since the mayor signed the bill putting Dawdle Dell on daylight saving time. The unknown fellow rings up the mayor every morning before daylight and shouts, "Time to gc to work!" The varmint who rifled the juke box in Pete's Cafe the other night left a note on a napkin saying: "AD good nickels. Not a single slug. People are getting more honest." He did a neat job didn't damage the juke box at all, and the onlj record he broke was "The Tennessee Ten-nessee Waltz". Mrs. Odd Bodkin was granted a divorce on the grounds that hei husband was always trying' to tattoo tat-too her so he could open a circus. |