The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-11-08
Remember the stribbiIn Place.

Remember the StribblIn Place.
II it ever comes to pass that you
mought run down into the Rocky Creek
Settlement-and then If yol want to
find out everything about everybody in
all the regions around, 60 over on the
Jackson Trail road and put up and spend
the night with old man Asey Stribblin.
What little old man Asey don't know in
regards to the general history of the
country and the people must of been
tore out of the books forty years ago.
And il you aint too tired to stay up late
and listen the old man will tell you all
he knows before you go to bed. From
general appearments the old folks put
in to raisin some mighty pecurious
children" about the time old man Asey
was born, and sometimes he talks a
whole passle jest simply because he has
got somethin to talk with.
But if you want to git all the news
don't forget to spend a night at the
Stribblin place. Old man Asey can
take me up one side and down the other
and tell you blame sight more about
my family records and my general repu-
tation than you ever could find out from
me. He is more than probable to tell
you about some things concernin which
| don't want everybody to know. II it
so happens that have ever got myself
mixed up in any scandalations and
fiirtatiOnments in the settlement old
man Asey can give you all the facts,
nd
trimmins for good measure. He is gen.
eral headquarters for everything in that
line. He can tell you to mats heel
how much money l have got, or how
much l owe-when / got it, and where 1
got it, and who holds the waverly notes
agin me. He can tell you how many
horses and COWS and hogs and pigs and
chickens and children we have got in
the Sanders family. Sometimes / won
der in my soul whero the old man gifts
all his facts. So far as me and him's
concerned l would see him sick abed
with fever and ten miles from water
before l would tell him anything. But
If there is any news in the settlement
particlar il it is right fresh and ruther
dirty-old man Asey can most in gen.
orally always manage so as to pick it
up ''cOmin and a-gwine."
Late along last summer got rich and
reckless and went up into Tennessee
and bought me a good saddle horse.
Andy Lucas went with me and rid the
horse back homo through the country.
The general facts in the case had already
leaked out in the settlement before we
landed the new horse at home. Bright
and early the next mornin old man Asey
come bilin over after the news. Bless
gracious, he was at the front gate before
/ got through breakfast. He come over
in such tremendous hurry and furry
till, by gatlins, he was sweatin like a
free niger on election day. And he re-
mained over and hung around till way
in the shank of the evenin tryin his
level blamdest to find out what had
give for my saddle horse. He saw me,
and he saw the horse, but that was all
SO far as me and him's concerned. But
yet at the same time, if you want to
know where got that horse, and who
got him from, and what l paid for him
to dollar and cent, don't forget to
put up and spend the night with old
man Asey Stribblin. 1 have never told
him-I have never even told Andy Luz
cas-but I'll bet the horse right now
agin the sorriest steer calf in the set
tlement that old man Asey can tell you
all about it. He has got the facts in
the case before now if he had to write
on back to Murray county, Tennessee,
and ask the man which / bought the