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Show -: oo t LIKES 'EM STRANGLED. Goselp From Hlckeyvllle That's ' In-, In-, terestlng. (From the Clarion.) Mr. and Mrs. Anson .limkey had deviled eggs for dlnnor Wednesday evonlng, but Anse says he likes 'em strangled better. There was a time when Mr and Mrs. Jlmkey had Uieir dinner in the middle of the day, but that was when he was digging wells for a Hvlu' and she was shootln' biscuits bis-cuits and slinging hash at the Hotel Hlckeyvllle. Constable Ezra Porklns has appeared appear-ed on our streets with a now pair of felt boots and arctics. Let the Improvements Im-provements go on. Grandma Bib-bins, Bib-bins, who has, been on the point of .doath for nine years, is diggin' a drain on the Anson Judson place and expects ex-pects to have It dono before snow files. ' Thieves has been robbln' William Albblts' Ice chest and he has wont down to the citj. to bqy one of those chest protestors he has seen advertised adver-tised so much of late. Some feller cut a hole In the bellows of the plpo organ or-gan at tho meetln house and when Old Lafe TuUbs started to pump her up she blew him out of the winder. There wasn't no wind for the organ, so Rev. Hanks made up the deficiency by preaching an hour longer than usual. usu-al. Grandpa Blbblns has learned a new trick. He can sit perfectly, still and wag his ears like a mewl, and wiggle his scalp like all get out. He has scared three of our kids almost Into fits already Something ought to be done with about a hundred and fifty soft-headed old pclters that are slttln' around this man's town tryln' to think up some new form of deviltry. |