The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-05-12

able fur tellin' you ov what | hear.
You see the H%untingburg lndepen.
dent civ a gold watch to the teller
that could send in the best writin's,
politics and religion not to be count.
ed against a Teller. | think about
every thing else was considered but
good, rail down good writin's. I'll
be hanged If the contest between
that thar Goose Eye" ov Nelpin,
an "lour Correspondent ov this
place, wasn't a scorcher. bout
everybody got tue goose. bumps To-
risin' on their backs, an all work
ed like Turks. Betsy says its rail
amazin' TO see how some %fellers
work against the intrust ov their
own town. Ave Horton is a fire
Teller, the ome say, but he got
riled up at ''lour Correspondent
an sent all his cupons to Goose
Eye because ''Iour Correspond
ent' told on him fur kiln a hoy
with a corr cob. There was Gull
Green, the champion smoker of
Dubois county, took a noshur that
he'd git Sch. Anderson, the p. NJ.
at Jasper, an high-cock-l-lorum ov
the Republican party in these ends
of the earth, an some ov his broth
ern-iaws to hep him an they'd
list up end 'Your Correspondent"
cause Gull thought the writer didn't
vote right at the last election. Bet
" says she don't think politics has
enything TODD with afeller's w%ritin's
to a newsl aper when it's fur the
good ov his town. She said that
she heard that the women of Hunt
ingburg vas rail earnest workers fur
Ireland. wuz out on the street
.other day listenin' fun pinters, an
| heard how Sam Kean an John
Gray slipped off to IIuntingburg,
an captured the hui bizness tur
.'lonr Correspondent"
Ii | understand their plan ov
workin', it wuz on the same style of
Dewey woikin' the board of strate-
" durin' the late Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Mr.. Editor, you under
stand durin' the openih' days Of
that war list closed, Uncle sam had
a board oy strategy stationed at
Washington City, whose duty it wa
to direct the movements ov Dewey,
sampson, Schley an all other fight
in generals. Now, Mr.. Editor, the
pint is this, you know il takes a
purity good pare ov specks fur a
man sit'in' in Washington To see
over to the island of Cuba, les &C.
tally on a cloudy day. an tell DIV
ey an Schley when to crack down.
Dewey seed that il he didn't cut
of all communication from Wash
ington he stood a mighty good
chance to lay idle fur a whole season.
50 he cut the wires an flew in on
them yaller skins an list whipped
the guard out'n them. Now If l.
understood Sam kean's meander-
ms ov the story, the boys didn't
cut the wire like Dewey. but they
cut off all telephone communications
between Goose Eye" an his board
" strategy, Postmaster Lewis, ov
Huntingburg, an Anderson, ov
Jasper, an not least, but last, John
Brademyer. This vas done by
sam holdin' fire On the Independent
office and Gray flankin' the town.
sam says they iist shelled the indie
dependent Office with cupons so
fast that Ed. had to surrender the
gold watch to the Ireland man. Ha,
hal ma. ginger bread an goose ber-
ries, if that wasn't rail down funny
ha. hal ha. Well I'll declare to
goodness if | didn't furgit te tel
you that Betsy complains ov feelin'
some better. Hopin' you will not
be disappointed in settin' these
writin's | will close.
UNCLE SAMPSON.