The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-11-12
GLEN WOOD.

Hucksters are travelling all over
the country gathering up all the
turkeys they can find.
Fire caught out in the Cooks
creek woods the other night and
caused no little excitement for a
time. About fifty men and boys
were on the scene in a short time
and extingulshed II before much
damage was done.
Mrs. l.. ID. Webb and little daugh-
tiers Maggie and Matte are spend
ing several days visiting her father
near Webbville.
Isaac Burton, section hand on the
C. & o. near Denton, was out in the
East Fork country Saturday and
Sunday passing jokes with his old
friends.
Will Rife, Oyerseer on the ELIAS
creek road, has worked the same
and claims the best part ofroad in
the county.
The other day We met on the road
about one hundred geese, or gooses
whichever is proper, and just be-
hind them was the scrawniest old
"hoss' ever saw, hltched to an
express wagon driven by a man
that in come particulars looked like
the old "hoss."
Three mischievOus boys met
viii Reeves the other night in a
thick woods as he was returning
from seeing his best girl, and step
ping in front Of him with a large
drawn knife, demanded his money
or his life. Bill, as he is familiary
called, tried to put them of by say
ing there was a man just over the
| hill (meaning John ID. Fannin) who
had plenty Of money, that he, him
self, hadn't cent. But poor Bill
was getting shakey In his boots and
, could not stand the argument any
longer. He thought, as he told II
afterwards, OF his pap and mother
and the little ones at home, and
thought also, that II ever his legs
could he OF any benefit to him, Il
would be at this critical time, and
J so he started at Il Maude S. gait,
over logs and through pine tops,
until he reached the main road and
: then knowing he had the right OF
way for about two miles, he throw
, the throttle wide open and said TO
himself, Amt / a-flyin'l This Is
a good joke on Bill, but from whaI
we can learn, it may work out a
: more serious joke ou the joker.
Frank Twinam sold one house
and lot Saturday to John Burkes
!, for two hundred dollars. The for
MGR will hold posse ssiOh until the
I 10th OF March.
It is seldom now that you hear
the old cry: "Have you any cattle
to sell?" II is thought by many
that the stock business will stand
| at about what It Is until Spring,
and then 1t Is thought that they'll
be higher than ever known.
Mrs. Araminta whitlng,who has
been visiting here and at Denton
for month, left Monday for her
home in Minnesota.
Frank Twinam and wife, and lit
tie son, Denvle are of on visit Ia
Star Furnace in Carter county.
Lizzie Rife and son Ralph have
, just returned after several days on
: joyment among friends at Hunt
I ington.
During election times some one
hurrahed for JEFF Davis over the tel
ephOne line, and the one Republi-
q can stakeholder got so enraged
; that he threatened to take his
phone down aud disconnect th'
q line beyond his residence to Den
: ton.
Rev. johnson preached at Sane
/, Hill last Sunday to a large congre
: cation. This is the first Sc .moI
a preached in this section for Ions
e time.
t Martin Webb tells us rat stor.
which he vouches to be true. Thi
morning while moving an old pen
he killed twenty-one rats OF the fol
lowing description: two had M
tails, four ofthem were eariess, one
Z was entirely blind and one wa
y blind IN one eye; four had theil
legs broken, and one had but thre'
feet, the other one having been cut
: of. The largest one weighed three
:. pounds, six inches across the back
: measured twenty-five Inches from
. the tip Of lis nose to the tip OF the
= tall, and from the looks Of its teeth
! Mr.. Webb supposed II to be abou
fifteen years old. Mart says h'
will make oath 70 the above state
ment, but It looks Ike Il would b.
: a risky thing 70 de-.
RoaCoR.