The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-06-09
BETSY HAS HER SAY.


ruther hi headed and talks OF beIn
literary since you've bin so good a.
10 print his writins bu. la l knew
| could do Just as wei emmy day
tried. He wuz onest enuf to own to
va that told him about the mis-
spelt words in that new paper, but
he never told Of the times and times
I've showed him how to spell in
his writins. decided ! would
write sum to. and let Sampson see
he had a female pardner his equll
in every respeck.
But good land I've no notion
OF writin about common things that
happens rite here in Ireland that
everybody nose. | had my heart
set on goin out TO Portersville and
seein those G.. A. RS. and hearln
that Boon TIP. commencement that
the papers have had so much to
say about. We started airly and
got there before the lain came up,
and il wuz a sollum site to see the
old veterans putin flowers and tiags
on their dead comrades graves. |
sted a few tears and felt that wuz
doing my duty by em to do SO.
Wall, it rained SO the speakin
could't go on in the forenoon.
When they did get ready the house
wuz full, and there wuz lots OF
young people, and old, too, mean
derin round the grounds. Some
rale young looking girls carrying
around oranges and candy, and
holding to their boze arm trald
they'd lose 'em, Sampson said 1t
did look TO him, no their mas
wuz at home cooking and carin for
company, for the children walked
in and out of the house in a deeten
manner-5ut knew their mas wul
not there, so | excused 'em.
Upon inquiry | turned that the
tai. slim man who read the program
for the G.. A. RS. and led the sing
! in wuz Tom Hays, and a noble
lookin feller he is. Have rec
(, about him in your paper but never
4. seen him. He sung about the mer
\ behind the gun; he is good singer
A brte lookin little black eyed
0 girl that they called Pearl Coffmar
lead in song about Dewy, two o
her sisters and Tom Crandall help
: ed her sing, and Tom Hays said /
wuz a duet. and he is very 'nolr
lookin man, Sampson don't like 4
: hear me say il tho.
A slick lookin little red headed
feler. from Daviess county, namet
Wallase, and they say he is
school superintender-wuz first in
) troiuced. He wuz to take th'
place of Judge Padgett, a man tina
{, Sampson wanted to here nifty bad
but, good land he couldn't under
stand more'n half Wallace said
Sampson didn't no what he mean
: when he spoke of G.. A. Rs. losin
their artilury and had to take
J. musket, but did. He wasted hal
of his time telin about the furs
speech he tried TO make, and hoy
when h. got up in the debate h'
+ couldn't say thing, and then hoy
he wuz cheered more for that speec
than emmy he's ever made since.
believe he's truthful man, an
n after he rally begun to speke he sor
ed of in oratory quite upliftin
away up in the skies with OIL
Glory. He is CROWN up throug
% the top of his hair which is incura
gin.
e Bob Wilson wuz next, and h
s. took US to Gettysburg and Chicks
r mauga. He did well. never nod
Gettysburg battl. field wuz almost a
: big as Boon TIP. Then, too, ULcl
sam has spent sites of money on
there on monuments and things
n maxim us remember about it.
>, Somebody axsd Hon. John Dil
! lon to the platform. He come, an
I've never regretted il ylt. lie
y hanson and nose just how speak,
: ought to be done. He spoke o
flowers for the livin and build
a monuments in the minds OF youn
peple, but Sampson never enloye
ot his talk like me.
There wuz whole seat full
pretty little music gurls from Ja'
3 per, and it wuz wonderful how the
could play just most anythinw, an
y play well too. They had sum lit
10 round bodied fiddles with out boz
Sampson likes EN- best with boz'
t and May Salb wuz the leade
j Their little fingers danced over Il
strings and the music rolled Gle
ot up TO the ceilin. 1t wuz good.
Hall an hour after the G.. A.
ng program ended the commenceme
commenced. In the interval NJ
Ritchey, one Of the Boon teacher
gethered up the fragments OF I
pr,,pram and | turned she wuz I