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Show Awful State of Affairs. "You can talk about the diabolical doin's out there in Hollywood," grimly grim-ly asserted old Riley Rezzidew, "but lemme tell you that right here in Petunia Pe-tunia things have come to a pass that would make Sodom and Gomorrer hide their heads in shame. Why, last Thursday night a passel of friends In human form turpentined my dog and turned him loose with yells of glee. The tormented animal tore down the street and right into the stone church where prayer meeting was going on, and as he went sliding up and down the aisle and howling in an unknown tongue his cries of agony were mighty nigh drowned by the rye-bald laughter of the assembled hypocrites, led by the pastor. Lemme ask you, what is the v world coming to when such an outrage out-rage can be perpetuated and go unchecked?" un-checked?" Kansas City Star. |