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Show "; Country CorresponisncV SLAB CITY Mrs, Jemima Peppers of Hickory Corners visited Mrs. Sam Hankins of this plac bit week, but the two women had a falling out. about what we did not learn, and Mrs. Peppers went bom in diiguit Jasper Tarbell got kicked by a colt on the 29th ult, and a a result haa had a lame back ever since. Arioch Perkins, who ha a lamb whose mother died in the spring, and which Arioch has been raising by hand, is now wondering what he i going to do with th lamb. It has turned out to be a ram and ha got to buttin. Last week it butted Mrs. Perkins, who was over the washtub out in the yard doing ber wash, and upset the tub and spilled a lot of white clothes on the ground, which wa tumble aggrrvating. Arioch says he calkTlates that lamb would make powerful good mutton. Mrs. Hester Jones, on of the hand- i somest widows of Slab City, has had attenshions paid to her by Mr. Jim Hawkina of Snake Bend, and roomer save they are going to make a bitch of' it , New are very scarce in our midst at this writing, but we hope to be able to give you more of them next week. VOX POPULL |