Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-08-18
,ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.
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but Nearly All Interesting Reading.


AT the store In Snow Hill q
little town in Missouri the loung.
ere were rscounting their narrow
escapes, says the National
Monthly. Unole emit" flowed
he had one that beat any 90 fer
related. "You boys ell remem-
ber the hollow sycamore down
there by the greek" he began,
swell. | came ell fired near get.
ting trapped In the linn OF that
tree the other day. I was com-
ing back from . hunt over on
Sugar creek and just as got to
this old tree II began 30 rain.
Thinks'y to myself that's o good
place TO get in out Of the rain.
90 in I crawls. Well. I elm up
and up, and finally crawlsd out
into. . hollow lin and what do
you think the dodgasted linn done
but bent down and closed up the
hole where I had crawled In.
Msbbs you think | wasn't come
scairt. Ibegun to think Of ell
the mean, low down things l had
ever done, but 1t didn't aeem to
do no kind o'good. I didn't seem
10 get no lighter. 80 the linn would
raise up and let me out, and the
only other opening was q knot
hole about two inches across. I
had about concluded that | was
done fer, when | happened to
think Of the time when I voted
the Republican ticket, about elk
years ago, and | just nacherly
swivilled up til crawled out Of
that knot hole and got away"
One OF the two big oil tanks at
La Plata owned by the Standard
OH company and containing
abou: 10000 barrels OF oil caught
fire and burned early Monday
morning OF last week, making q
light that was visible, to early
risers for twenty miles around.
1t seems that La Plata has O man
who belongs to the class Of per.
cons who light matches 10 inves.
ltigate gas leaks. A new man In
the employ OF the company went
out to read the oil gauge shortly
after midnight and he lighted q
match to zee the figures. The
|gss which forms near oil tanks
lwas ignited and with o swoop the
whole thing was ablaze. The man
was not hurt. The tank has Q
capacity Of sc. 900 barrels. but the
oil was only about eleven feet
deep In It.
Il IL : little farm house not very
far from Macon resides . woman
with two husbands. Don't startl
She has kept eaoss within the law,
she was divorced from her fret
! husband; then married another
man; was divornsd from him, re-
, married her 6rst husband and
was again disorcsd from him
Then she met another msn whom
she liked pretty well. married hin
and went to housekeeping. No
long ago her firss husband VA
!, injured In . mins, The sr,wifa
took pity sn him and had hin
brought TO her house. whers with
the cid Of her third husband sh,
il taking asss Of him. The two
men are good friends and psysl
. word Of discerd braaks into thl
harmony of The somewhat uniqu,
|, situation.
} Our name sake over Il Fayett.
thinks that Champ Clark ought tc
discourage bic friends irom sup
porting him for president, ant
THAT he ought to help give Mia
I souri 10 Folk. We don's under
stand Why Clark has not - muol
J IFiehi 70 run Tor president as Folk
J Folk would havs the hcht nt hi
> life 70 carry Missouri eyen witl
CLARK out oi The wsy.--Hoon
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