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Show Personal Mention This is a nice apeel of weather we are paving, providing ft don t rain, which it looks like aa we go to press. The pumpkin crop is reported good everywhere this year. We are glad to hear this, being as our favorite pie is pumpkin pie. Wes Woodruff, our expert hunter and trapper, says that he has never saw so many acorns on the oaks as there be this year and he reckons that squirrels will be thicker than fleas, being as when acorns are plenty so is squirrels. Hi Cranby went to shave last Sunday morning, but as his razor was so dull when he got hit beard shaved off on the right-hand side of his face, he stonprd in dinnt. Hi looks almost ridickulous going around only half shaved, but then as Hi says, he don't care how he looks so as he feels well. Lafe Whittacre, while passing through his orchard tother day discovered a hornet's nest which he thort was a old one until he knocked it off en the limb. Then he discovered that it was full of hornets. Lafe was a quarter of a mile from the hoi.se, but he says he made it in- less than a minute and the hornets followed him all the way Lafe wat stung seven times betwixt the orchard and the hack kitchen door, and he says next time he will be sure the hornet's nest is empty before he pulls it off en the limh. Miss Sarah Ann Whittacre la the guest of her cousin Lucy Smith at Hardscrabble at present and hat been for several days. Sarah Ann writes home that she is having a lovely time in Hardscrabble society. Bud Hinckley, who ain't quite right in his head, went swimming in Snake Crick, tother day without taking his clothes off and when he got home Mre. Hinckley chastised Bud with a shingle so that hit voice could be beard all over BingvUl. V t |