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

From the Toledo Blade.1
The Temperance Movement at the
Cross-Roads 49, Those wretches, Joe
BIgIer and Pollock, Persecute the
Saints.
CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
(Wich Ia in the State nv KentuckyO
March 10, 1874.
Eff Heavens most piercin litenins Good
strike Joe Bigler and that jeerin feend,
Pollock, shood think more Nv the econ
omy Nv nacher; for till these demons is
dead and berried we never shell hev peace
or quiet at the Corners. 1t wuz a bitter
day for me, and for all Nv us, when that
wretch Pollock come here from Illinoy,
and struck hands with Joe Bigler. Either
Nv EN- is pizen-yoonited, striknine is
nothin to EN-.
We held meetin in Bascom's last week,
Toosday, to decide upon some measures
to counteract the wimmin's temperance
movement wich we are momentarily ex-
pectin will strike the Corners and ravage
us ez it hez the towns and villages in Ohio
and Injeany. Bascom called the meetin,
for Bascom swears he will defend his rites
till the Last
We he'd the grocery tollably full Nv the
men Nv the Corners, when who shood
march in but Bigler and Pollock, who sot
down on nail kegs ez sollum ez a funeral.
Various sejestions wuZ made ez to the
best way Nv ceunteractin the movement,
when Pollock rose and askt the privilege
Nv maxim remark, wich l, ez Chairman,
consentid to.
81 sympathiZe heartily with yoo," sed
Pollock, i'm thus standin up and maxim
head agin this fanatikle croosade, and
wood sejest that 700 fite the devil with
fire. In Ohio the wimen go out agin the
traffic in likker-let our wimen here in the
Corners come out and enter their protest
agin eny interference with the rites Nv
their husbands, fathers and brothers. Let
the winen of the Corners protest agin this
fanaticism."
Joe Blgler riz, and felt presentiment
th.t t. e devil he'd broken his chain and
wuz amongst US.
g. don't often agree with Pollock" he
remarked, "but there is in this sejestion
so much w good sense that l bleeve /
shel second him in it. By all means let
our wimmin enter their protest against
this wild croosade, that the world may
know that Kentucky at least stands by
her landmarks. The wimmin Nv Ohio
howl that the traffic is denoralizin to So
ciety, and pertikelarly that it is rooinin
them. Now let the wimmin of the Cross
Roads meet and hist in their testimony
that it is nothin Nv the kind. And that
this protest may be made in doc form,
sejest that the wimmin NV Confedrit X
Roads meet in the church to.morrer af-
ternoon, at two p. m, and resoloot agin
this thing. Is il go?
:" 1t isp' at isp' ave will hev EN-
do i'll" wuz shouted from all parts NV the
room.
Bascom wuz delited with the propo-
sishen. He sed that so far ez his wife
wuz concerned, she wood jine in sich a
protest heartily. 1t shood be done by all
means.
" 1t is all we'll enuff to say we will "
sed Bigler, "bHt let US make shoor NV
hevin EN- all out that there may be no
faleyoor. To make this success the
meetin must not only be enthusiastic,
but large. Pollock, take piece of paper
and pnt down the names nv those whose
husbands will pledge themselves to be
present. lssaker Gavitt, will Mrs. Gavitt
be shoor to comeS"
lssaker blushed-wich is to say his nose
turned bloO-ez he ansered "probably
not, onless the weather shood be warmer,
for my woman heZn't got no shoes"
Mrs Gavitt can't come 10 protest agin
this croosade agin likker coz she aint got
no shoes" sung out Pollock.
But lssaker, | bought fifty bushels NV
corn nv yoo last fall-why didn't yoo gel
yoor wife shoes theng"
he'd to pay ITO Bascom, ON account u
sed poor lssaker, blushin still more
"All right" sed Pollock; "uv course
700 did. Go on, josef"
esquire Pennibacker, will your wife be
present to jine this anti-fanaticism mo We
mentr'
She'll oppose it," said the Squire,
"coz | do; but doubt eff she kin come
ant 10 bear testimony agin 1t. She ainl