The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-11-01
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Mrs. Sniveller was. made chair
man and the following resolution
were adopted:
ReSOlred, That this shall be call
ed the Buttonville Benevolent Ba
by Association.
| ReSOlred, That Mrs. Sniveller be
and hereby are our President.
ReSolred, That our aim is to- hell
the down -trodden and bed-ridde1
daughters of Ham, now in the
clutches of that vile people, and tc
this end every member of the BIB
B, make one little flannel shirt a
week, and Sally Squiggle shall tell
us the size.
ResO5ted, That we open and close
our Society with prayer.
ReSolred, That each one of the
members invite some man to 60
home with her at night. (Here
was about to object; for fear of ex-
posure didn't object.-SaEy.)
After the Society was organized
| was kept so busy answering ques-
tions that | came near not finish
ing the baby envelope l was work
ing on and should not, had l not
took long stitches as people do in
benevolent sewing!
Mrs. Sniveller said:
"Now Sally ant that ere South
ern people, the hatefullest pround
people the world ever did see q
Cousin John who went down as a
suttler brought home two trunks of
the proudest silks, laces, jewellery
tha was real gold, and set with
purity stones that was reel dia-
monds, and worth a power of mon
ey. He found them in bureaus,
trunks, closets and sich places.
The sneaking coward-men had
gone off to kill our good people and
the women were at work in the
hospitals and all John had to do
was to whip lot of little children
and help himself! l know them are
folks are a wicked mean, ongrate-
nh set, and onght to killed.n
Mrs. Puritan wanted to know if
it was true that the people Of the
South actually cooked billed din
ners on Sunday? If they did, she
really hoped her cousin in Congress
would pass a law that whenever a
man in the South cooked billed
dinner on Sunday, he should be
hung before dinner and his billed
dinner should be sent North!
Mrs. Pinchbeck hoped the war
would continuer to 60 on till there
was no more end of nothing. For
her part it was all stuff about the
people suffering during the war.
Her Josiah had a contract and
made two hundred thousand dol
lars the first year, and when her
brother Reverend Peaknose Ran
ter came back from the war where
he had periled his precious life eat
ing preserves so they would not
hurt sick soldiers, he brought home
more than fifty gold watches and
the incest gold clasp bible which
was now used every Sunday in one
of the Buttonville Churches.
Mrs. Squeak said the people of
the South were nothing but mur-
derers, for when her brother, Colo
mel Fibre Hunter was out in field;
-doin' nothing, kiln nobody, doin'
nothin' but just seein' how muc ch
cotton an army team could draw,
so he could tell if it was a good
team, some cowardly gorilla shot
hole clean through him, and
wouldn't even send his clothes
home for her Jedediah'to wear out!
And she hoped if another war ever
did come, some of them sinful men
of the West would go down and do
it to 'em agin, not that she cared
so much for her brother, but she
wanted them ere clothes for her
Jedediah!
Mrs. Cockeye said she hoped
there would be hull passel of wars,
for her cousin, her dear good cou.
sin, Benjamin (the Beast) had made
lots of money in the late war, and
had supplied nearly all her rela-
tives with spoons, watches, silver
ware &C., and said it was right the
war should go on, for her cousin
was safer in m than afore a court
of Justice eke& and said it was a
Christian duty to let all Christian
wars be tcontinnered so long as
there was anybody to continner
'em.
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