Show FELL Deacon B Butterworth h Fall 8 From His is Front Door Also From Grace race According According Ac Ac- c cording to fie the Reports as to What He HB a Said id When He a Lit Deacon Butterworth is enhancing the beauty of his palatial residence on Main Iain street et by the erection of 3 wooden steps leading from the board walk to his front door The old steps t ps having been in us use ever eYer since the house hous wa was built 60 years cars ago and being also crumbled almost to decay the deacon n removed them on Tues Tuesday br pr preparatory to putting in m in a new set Wednesday On Tuesday evening after supper r the deacon filled h his o pipe put on his hat and told his wife he was going over o to Hen I V Weathersby's store tore to chat a bit with the boys It was dark by this time and the deacon forgot all 1 about having took the steps away from in front of the door so O wh when n he stepped out he was met by a awful surprise He fell forward turned over once and landed in a mud ditch the board walk When he lie got of on his feet his bis whiskers was full o 0 of fot mud and the skin was sort of wore vore off in spots but otherwise he was uninjured When he lie fell feU he lie broke his pipe off and like to have the stem Reports differ as to what the deacon said when he stepped out of the door into space c. c Mel rel Higgins who was passing passing passing pass pass- ing at the time says sas he heard the deacon s say Dang it all l 1 but we hesitate to believe c that a man of the deacons deacon's moral standing in this community corn com would give utterance to skIt sich com j an In ungodly and blasphemous sentence even een though the occasion justified it Eph Higgins who was standing in the he the postoffice postoffice postoffice post- post office door and saw the whole thing happen says that all the deacon said was Oh Olt shucks Whatever the thc deacon may mayor or marnot may mar not have said faid we nee must all aU admit dmit that it was a very er trying moment to him and it is I likely if his mouth had not of been full of mud he would have hue remarked remarked remarked re re- re- re marked more at le length on on the subject Deacon Butterworth has the sympathy of the entire community in the JO loss of his pipe |