Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29
Cream Ridge.
CREAM RIDGE, Jan. ~, ISS,

CREAM RIDGE, Jan. ~, 1880.
EDITOR CRISIS The world wags
on just as 1t would if your Cream
Ridge correspondents did not exist.
We are thankful to find the
health OF the people as good as usu.
al in this portion of Hayes foot
stool. Some have colds, coughs,
sncezes and nose blowing, as VIC
may expect with the kind of wealth
er We are having.
The people are oil laborng hard
to make living. They have good
crops all the time, still grow poorer
from year 10 year. Not much con-
ISOLATION or encouragement about ii;
and we are sorry to say these are
facts. The present year has set in
with a better show for success; but
we tear it is Of short duration. All
seem TO be encouraged, howcvor,
and dive into the mud with increas.
ed vigor and energy.
We passed through Alec. Melon.
AIDS field the other day. We could
see the mules ears and hear Alec's
voice; SO we knew he was some.
whore sitting corn out Of tho mud.
We hope he will get on top before
the election for Alec. is a bully
Greenbacker.
Tho Cream Ridge merchant at
Cottonwood Grove is doing a land
office business. Nothing could you
mention from a onc.eyed darning.
needle to a left handed crowbar,
that he hasn't got. The school, be.
ing in full blast, and the you tbs get
ting so much in their heads, makes
a heavy demand for fine combs. He
keeps the village time with q splen-
did watch, which he sets three times
day by the growing OF an old
brahma cock that roosts on the"rlg.
ged edge of his water-pail, and true
to second at bedtime, midnight
and daybreak, and is easily wound
up with half pint of shelled corn.
The washing machine that Bert
Worthley likes to swing on his arm,
is the oldest patent recorded in his.
tory. 1t was invented IN the year
one, on the 9th day of creation, and
the last piece of machinery manu-.
factured. The material was taken
from under the infant mans vest in
his first slumber. That's the kind
of washing machine Bort is ped.
ding.
DR.. Freeman is practicing freely
! on Cream Ridge. He went through
a felon on g. A. DAVIS finger; and
would have let all things impure
out, bu! the Doctor SAID he feared
there would be nothing left but an
old pair of cotton suspendcrs. The
Doctor also, after several severe sur
ges, pulled a monster tooth for Dick
Davis, with forkei roots reaching
down in the locality ofa green
backer's heart. 1t came hard, like
drawing the hard.monoyed plank
from Democratic platform; but
Dick liveth and still remains class
leader Of the greonback church.
DR.. Houf, also has a share of the
practice in this vicinity. One of
our heavy.set young mon lcapod
from grain wagon, driving him.
self into the mud over the calves
some Six feet or moro. Houf was
sent for, and found it necessary tc
amputate his boots, which he did
and started him on the highway
bare footed, whisting Yankee Doo'
die in dutch. The result was a baC
cold and new pair of boots.
Eugene Pugslcy had 500 horse
to die at Cottonwood Grove on hi
return home from Chlllicothe
Gene don't grieve as he firmly be
lieves there will be horses here be
low after he is gone up.
This, the 23d of JAM, brings tn,
CRISIS. We hate pride in som,
cases, but we must confess we ar,
: proud of the CRISIS, and the doctrln,
. which it promulgates fit was on
ly practlced it would not bo hal
filed with Ike Leeper's sales.
Yes sir! Parties average thre
per night, all IN running order an
go off just as smoothly as pocket
full of gimles, except a slight rip
|" pie of dissatisfaction caused by a
accusation against the boys for put
ting themselves outside of a give
amount of "crooked whiskey;" bu
> from rigid examination, bya CON
T. mittee Of grandmothers, it was pre-
ven, by smelling the cork, that
>, was nothing but Vinegar Bitter'
II So the young doves sleep sound.
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