| OCR Text |
Show KELTON IS HAUNTED. Some Uncanny Creature Frightens the Village out of Ha W It a. The sleepy little town of Kelton has a real, live ghost about its ears. We learn the story from an authentic authen-tic Bource. It runs as follows: Last Saturday Satur-day night several young men were sitting up rather late, playing cards at the Jones' store. It wasn't precisely pre-cisely midnight, but it waB nevertheless never-theless dark and murky without, when to the astonishment of the terrified men, a tall, stately form suddenly glided into the room. It was clothed in the usual long white robes and moved smoothly about without the merest shadow of a noise. As mysteriously as it came, it unexpectedly vanished. Then it appeared to the telegraph operator at the station, a hundred yards away. This plucky fellow grabbed up a butcher knife and gave chase, slashing at that grim creature at overy step, but each time his blows fell short, much to his astonishment, astonish-ment, as he was in reaching dis-t.nice dis-t.nice each sten. When lift win nn the point of cleaving off its head '. with one fell swoop, the uncanny uncan-ny creature vanished like a flash before his eyes. It has not been seen since. The little place is said to be in a fever of excitement over the unusual unusu-al occurrence. |
