Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-03-27

got no cloze that she'd like to be seen in"
Mrs. Pennybacker amt got no cloze,
and cant come" sung out Pollock. 60
on, josef"
"Deekin Pogram, yoor wife and poor
dawter Mirandy will be here, certainlyW
"Taint shoor," sed the Deekin, "uv
both NV em--one NV em kin come, but the
other cant. Ell my wife wears the dress,
M irandy must stay, and vice versv, COZ
they amt got but one atween en-"
"I hev put one down from Deekin Po-
grams, e2 them two wimin hev only one
dress atween EN-. Go on, Josef. We've
got to git more than these or the meetin
will be failyoor."
"Lem'l Pettus, will you see that your
wife will be present to protest agin-"
"Stopp' l yelled, seein the drift NV
these wretches; this hez gone fur enuff.
l pertest--"
Easy, Parson, easy" said Bigler.
ave must hev the wimmen out. The
wimmen Nv Ohio pertest that likker
rooins em-our wimmen must bear testi-
mony that it don't. l confess that the
prospeck isn't encurrigiu, for we hevn't
found sufi1ciency Nv dresses and shoes
and sich among our wimmen to enable
EN- to take part in a public demonstration,
but"
At this pint Bigler stopped, for Mrs.
Bascom, G.. WIS wife, opened the door Nv
her settin-room, wich wuz jist one side
Nv the bar-room, and looked in. 1t wuz
an unfortinit movement ez ever wuz-in
fact, it seems ez tho the devil alluz helped
Bigler and Pollock. There stood Mrs.
Bascom with black moire anteek dress
on, with gold rings onto her fingers and
a fur concern about her sholders, and
reel CATERS onto her feet, and O buzzum
pin onto her, and everything gorgeous.
Ez she drawed back into her own room,
Pollock broke out
"Mrs. Bascom kin go and enter her
protest agin this onwomanly croosade,
can't sheY"
"Uv course she kim" sed Bigler.
"She's got shoes and cloze ennff"
"Too troo," said Pollock, "and, singler
ez it may seem, she's the only one in the
Corners who bez. What shell we do
about it?"
"I pertest agin this thing" shrieked l.,
for | seed wat it was leading to.
Wait till make my sejestion," sed
Bigler. / wuz comm to it. 1t strikes
me that Bascom's wife hez got all the cloze
that belongs to the wiinmen Nv the Cor
ners, and that it is likely to continyoo so
jist so long ez Bascom keeps the grocery,
for the reason that it takes all that the
men kin get hold Nv to keep EN- in sus-
tenance. Now wooGn't it be an ekitable
arrangement eff the male citizens Nv the
| Corners shood take turns at keepin the
grocery? Let Isseker Gavitt hev it a
| week, wich wood enable him to get Mrs.
| Gavitt pair ov shoes-a weeks profit
wood enable Pennibacker to get his wife
caliker dress, and so on around. 1t
seems to me that it's unfair"
Bigler didn't git no further with his in.
cendiary harangue. Bascom billed over,
| and throwed bottle at him, wich Bigler
| lodged, and he and Pollock went out a
latin vociferously at the fix they had put
us in. That bottle broke up the meetin.
l thot it pity that it shood be wasted,
and went for 1t, and so did every man in
the room, and we struggled for il on the
| floor like madmen. Issaker Gavitt got it,
and busted out with it.
am feerful that our efforts to stem this
tide will result in failyoor. / can't help
| confessin that there is suthin queer in the
fact that Bascom's wife is the only woman
in the Corners who hez decent clothes,
but Joe Bigler and Pollock he'd no biznis
to make that fact so cussedly apparent
Ell it ever gifts to the ears Nv the wimmin
it amt impossible that they'll commence
a raid on Bascom themselves. woodent
have Pamela Gavitt, Issaker's wife, gi,
hold Nv where that fifty bushels Nv corn
went, for no money. It's cold world
and a hard one to git thro with easy.
| PETROLEUM " NAsBY,
| (Which WIZ Postmaster }
P. S.-This excitement hez delayed the
ishoo Nv my new paper. But I shell gi
it out.