The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-06-10
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( deputy, Jarvis on whatever in thun.
der his official haft may be, haa been
down heIe trying To make II mus out
of things, aud wanted to level On
Billie for lacks, and its malicious
Islander. Billie never took single
tack from thar fellow IN his lite, and
want YOU to tell the tack hammer
at SUNNI pus singer and semi.Sher.
/ III thar II there has heen ANYBODY in
his tack -pateh down here its more
than likel, to have been that squat
j. ter sovereignty claim Jumping gang
of Butterflies" and Flower Gar
dens"
Now, my dear Chroniclers, if that
exorescence of II West Fork Sheriff,
persists in fooling around here with
his leveling machine aperattus it may
necessary to fee lawyer, or call IN
Oke Stump, the undertaken, with his
big plumed hack, and in that case
we want to be prepared to prove our
general repugnance for taste and vo.
raoIousness
You people have known me ever
since l. was puerile, puguscious tn.
multi, and have known Billie. OF the
tribe of Benjamin, since became the
owner of him 10y virtue OF a proniv-
sorry note. The editor and have al.
ways been good friends, and he Is a
perfect magician He can fix up
poor composition to read like Il had
been written by Dan Webster. And
once he took his blue pencil, and bv a
simple twist If the wrist, he turned
my -- into an abdomen. And
those proof readers are good fellows,
and they ought to be good to me, be-
cause OF the uucOniradictable tact
that | have furnished them with more
business, spelling my n,isspelled
words, moving my punctuation marks
and correcting my bad grammar, than
al the college graduates that ever
wrote for them The press men-Gnd
tless 'em-I know their lahorious dn
ties, and they will remember how
willing have ever been to help them
press Ga bottle) when happen ed to
he there on press day. As for the
dewitt ne is not very ungrateful
devil-he will he on ouI side anyway.
because, according To orthodoxy, We
have been doing his dirty work for
years.
Now boys, I hear Zeke coming
with Billy and ri get out and see il
! can find some material to build a
wind mill on Il vacant lot i'm the
Chronicle. | just thrnught whist he
was getting him, that It might be wisdom
in time of war, to prepare for peace, so
have written the above propaedeutical in
PRODUCTION
"iLello pap, here's Billy" Is he, son
and how is he? Finest shape on earth -
I'll bet that three pronged seng root | dug
in the polk patch tina. lac can beat old
Mart CrOllerS engine in fair race TO TN {
moon" Bring him around, I'll not rid,
lar, it's not nccessary-and We will Just ge
Billy in good shape TO run for the Sheriff
Of the county. Well Billy we will have t,
tell what we see or tell nothing, not met .
man i'll five miles, and not heard thing
but the woa-haw of the farmer talkids
to his pillow horse. wiz Freed WORKING
corn Will Go.dnight Henry Frank
lielry Smith. and Milt 1mpuctt d,
by the spots ON the sun, Milt is through
his corn, AMI IS blowing aud hoing hi
|, wheat Milt will fld something for hi
boys to do ii he has to send them over {,
Berry thoughts to buy bacon at 10 cents
pound, when he could buy an inferior ar
tcle as close home for II.
Hold Billy! Wonder comes that Sherii
with his level err 80 its Scott Ferell will
his surveying tools-lIow are you Scottie
"About on am average -how's Felix?
Fairly we'll. guess I'm able to carr
3 the chain if you are going ont to run ar
r oil line
Not going TO run it-Surycying Goa
lands for the International Coal Gown
take up the options q, soon a, the Railroad
is completed, so they can run in the pa,
car
; I'm sorry you are not goingto run thai
line It's in dispute and the county sur
velor will have To- settle TO- freed run fl
right through his knob field. Raybuck run
It through bis farm two miles east Of that
Milt Irippett run IL mile west. Capt
Terrell split the difference, and run Oh,
thing out They all ran on the same degree
but the Captain made plat. and seen it
and il was just the shape OF a tad. pole, an,
the head Of the tad is right under the Cap
uins patch.
"O Felix lets pull the casing in that OF
business and tell me what you know abou
polite Not in her not going 60 be, Phi
IrpPett says its like Fiuga cave in Oh,
Lie of Nt,ia Although its bs,sltic forma
ton rnasos ID fascinating picture 10 Is
dark hole covered with water 9n dceu
and tnaf whom the ,rsvo.. .,.t t.,;.t.,.,.. 90.