Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-02-10
wHEN GU coMgs 10 TOWN.

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tellin' how things are getting
along. I hav'nt seen anything
from Owl Hollow in a long time,
80 | thought Won would be tickled
to hear from us.
Well, nobody amt dead de wn
here, and nobody amt got married
lately. We've got plenty Of corn,
meat and money, and no poor kin.
We got to cOuntin' up down at
the pOstOfie 'tOther day and iOun'
we could raise SO, 900 10 put in
some kind Of payin' business and
still have plenty to run on.
So the boys put it 90 me to 60
up to OkOlona and look around,
bein' as | had been squire of the
peace and kind Of general repOsi.
tory for useful information for nigh
on to % years. / got up the
steers and put on 2 bales Of cotton
worth $3.50 and lie out for TOWN,
feeling the important mission that
| was sent on was due in great
part to my supposed financial
ability.
In due time, with slow and
stately tread, Buck and Ball pulled
into your good town. 1 hadn't
been there for several years, and
found I wasn't on ter all the new
tangled ways Of an up.to-daie
town. After / had fed and watered
the steers 1 concluded 1 would
kinder take in the town before
selling my cotton. The first place
l went was to Davis drugery, and
IS l went Ia the front door / saw
an old gentleman coming to meet
me, he looked Just like my brother
who lives in Texas, and as l hur-
ried up to shake hands / run
'gainst a great big looking glass
settin' right across the back end
OF the store, and while the head
man was tryin' to explain to me
that it wouldn't cost me $50 If I
broke it, my big yaller dog came
In and, by george, he thought he
was agOing to meet bis brother
from Texas, too, till he run 'gainst
his self. No explainin' was worth
anything to Heck, he wanted a
scrap on the spot, and we had to
hustle out to keep frum payin'
damages. l Amt got no use for
any such traps set to ketch honest
men and dogs.
As / went long up the street /
heard something making a noise
like a jack a brayiD, aud went in
where q lot Of fellers was having a
lot Of fun with q big brass horn;
they would turn a little screw and
it would commence sizzling like q
mad gander and then run of into
singing, preaching and every kind
Of development you could think
Of. / am bound to have one to
take down 20 Owl Hollow, 80 if
the preacher fails to come, we can
turn q screw and have q sermon,
and then / want to try to run some
Of my sunday-schOOl talks into it
and hand 'em down to genera.
tons.
Then I went on up to the cotton
yard, and having eaten my sup
per, / told the boys who was
going to be the next President,
and all bout the Panama canal,
etc. / was ready to turn in for
the night and 1 spent half an hour
in trying to blow out that darned
little crooked wire that stays in
that little glass thing that looks
like 3 crows bill. SEEM it wouldn't
blow out, I thought l would take
my knife and examine the string
that holds it up-the FIRST thing /
knOWed q pain shot through my
arm clear down and out at my
heel, 1 jumped about four feet
high and yelled like a wild iniun.
I was satisfied it was loaded, but
Il knocked me higher than a kite.
Next morning I sold my cot
ton, and went round ameng the
mOneyed men to see what the
chance was to put our money into
some good payin' business. When
they found I was ct the head Of g
syndicate Of capitalists they re-
ceived me kindly. They said they
had q fine trade this fall and win
ter, had plenty money to put up
any kind Of industry they wanted,
but vas satisfied to let we'll enough
alone, they didn't care to bother
with new enterprises, if the Owl
Hollow syndicate wanted to 60
into business the City Council
give them FIVE lots and
nominal taxes, etc. I told them
when ell the railroads 60 to run
ming through the western part OF
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