The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-17
TROUBLE AT THE CORNERS.
The Vaccinations of Joe Bigler Causing
Great Decentralization.
Toledo Blade.

Toledo Blade.
CONFIDENT X ROADS (Which is in the State
NV Kentucky, July 10, 1883.-Onless suthin
happens to save us, the Old organizashen at
the Corners is gone, and 1 mite ez well dust
out and seek pastors fresh. The foundashens
Nv the CRATE deep is broke up. and there is
choice and miscellaneous assortment of hell
afoat.
Joe Bgler and Pollock got hold of Issaker
Gavitt, and in conjunction with his wife,
whom l wish the devil he'd; hev organized
Corners into Moo England village and leave
me out in the cold altogether.
1t is the same old trubble Mrs. Bascom
wood wear her red silk sGockins, and wood
sport her moo silk dresses.
She cooden't help it-no woman kin. Give
SIGH woman ez Mrs. Bascom a moo silk dress
and red silk stockins, and she wood wear EN-
eff she knowed she he'd to go to the stake the
next minnit Female vanity is the spring
NV woes unnumbered. Naturally, the VIM
min Nv the Corners rebelled. and Issaker
Gavtts wife developed an amount of STRAIT
egg wich | never supposed any woman ever
he'd.
She compelled Issaker to stay at home four
days last week, aud not go to Bascoms at al.
We missed him from his familiar seat and
ther wuz gloom intensified. Bascom wuz
glowry the good old deacon wuz sad, and
Kernel McPelter murmured suthin about
chaos comm agin. Bascom remarkt that he
shood lose the art NV writin eff 1ssaker kept
away much longer
Yesterday, about II A. NJ, Their cum along
in front NV Bascom's perceshn witch start
led us. 1t consisted NV wagon drawd by
one mule, and into it wuz lssaker Gavtt and
his wife. both with banners
Mrs Gavitt sot on the left SIDE with her
dress pulled up on to her lap, so ez to expose
pare NV legs half way up to the knee, clad
in pare Nv red stOckins, with patent-leather
shoes on the eend NV EN-, and she held in her
hand banner onto which wuz inscribed
these legends:
"My husband hazn't bin to BascOms for four
days. He hez chopped cord wood ana sold it.
He hez MIXED the COWS and helpt me TO churn,
and in them four days we hev sold truck enutf to
buy me these shoes and stOckins, with store gar
tiers, and him a billed shirt. The stockins amt
silk, but eff he keeps away from Bascom's two
weeks longer L Will hev silk stockins and ne will
hev decent SCOT Nv cloze"
Issaker carried a banner onto witch wuz
this:
"At home and at work four DAYS. A billed shirt
for the first time sence l wuz married"
Ez the perceshn passed Bascom's he tried
to drop the banner and git out, but his wife
held him down to his sect by the throat He
wuz konkered and subdcod.
The effeck wuz electrickel. Every woman
in the Corners cum out to see Issaker Gavitts
wife in Stockins, suthin that hedn't happen
ed to her for twenty years. The shoes ex-
cited EN- to mddnis, the red stockins made
EN- shreek and when Joe Bigler jumped
into the wagon, and, ez eff by axident, hirted
up her dress so ez 10 show pare Nv bloc
elastic garters, with white metal buckles,
they abslootly howled. The wimmin NV the
Corners not warm stockins ez a rool don't
hev no call for garters and them ez do hev
alluz bin obleeged to content themselves
with a tow string.
Mrandy Pogram saw the site, and she
rushed into BaScoms and took her venerable,
father out by the ear
WAT 700 want to do" wuz her remark
sis to go home and go to work. EFF Issaker
Gavitt kin in-four days furnish his wife with
shoes and red stockins by keepin out NV
Bascoms, 700 kin dress yoor dawter suthin
like decent by the same process. Git"
And the good old Deekin moved off re-
gretfully toward his home.
Then Mrs. NJ Pelter she cum rushin in for
the Kernel.
do you see," sed she, wat Mrs. Gavitt
he'd on? Red stockins and Shoes and all
earned in four days. l will hev EN- myself
iii four days or yoor corpse, Wat Issaker
GavitJ hez done 700 kin do"
And then all the wimmen in the Corners
formed themselves into a percesshun behint
the wagon that 1Ssaker wuz drivin, and they
marched thro the Corners shoutin, "Red
stockins or no meals" Shoes witch button
or no grubi' and SIGH incenjary cries. And
wat wuz wuss, they formed a gard and stood
i'll front of Bascom's and whenever one NV
tner husbands wanted to come in they hus-
tied him off, a committee bein appointed to
worry his ears till he wuz willin to go home
1t wuz a dreary mite we he'd at Bascom's
Their wuz nobody but him and me, for no
the COrnprS dared tn ShOW his fnca
within mile NV the place. Their we sot,
and sot in gloomy silence. Bascom was so
deprest that he never sed a word the fust
time | stole behind the bar and helped my
self to a reviver, nor did he object the second
time The third time he lifted his sad ewes
and remarked Help yoorself to all 700
want. Everything is lost. Their is a spirit
of disorganiZation abroad that will stop
hevin knows when and where. Help pour
self The tale mite ez well go with the
hide"
And in sadnis did help myself, till over
come with emoshun, slid off my chare onto
the fore, and slept the sleep NV the Just
We mite hev knowed it wuz Joe Bigler
witch organized the rebellion, him and Pol
lock. Joe Bigler got Issaker to promise to
stay at home and work, and, to compel him
to keep his word stayed by him with a club
He compelled him to churn the butter, and
went with him to town with it, and, ez ther
wuzn't enuff NV it to buy the shoes and
stockings for his wife, in order to make shoor
NV the risin Pollock took wat ther wuz and
furnished the shoes and stockins anyhow
Them two men hev bin eye-sores TO the
Corners for seventeen long weery yeers, and
eff litenin' Good strike EN- it wood be a bless
in to Bascom and me. But it won't. They
hev tho whiprow NV us and they yoose
Their advantages in the most ieendish man
ner.
Where it will eend the Lord only knows.
Ell the wimmen git the upper hand NV Their
husbands in the matter NV likker, why not
in everything? Ef they kin compel ther
stick to Their work, why can't they compel
them to vote ez they want EN- to? And when
dizzy: cit to warin hilnd sLirts unn,t thn,.