The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-06-20
Briar Patch LokalS.

Briar Patch Lokals.
Raj Barlow went to Tickville the first
of the week to watch the train come in.
He brought bottle of train smoke back
with him.
Yam Sims arrived home Thursday eve
ming wearing mule collar that he
bought at Bounding Billows.
Fit Smith fell out of a wild cherry tree
IN the Gander Creek woods the other
day. Next time he will climb nothing
but tame cherry trees.
Cricket Hicks began a search this
week for fishing worms and will leave
no stone unturned.
1t is rumored that Jefferson Potlocks
is about to get married for the third
time. A good many peoples sentiments
are against this third term proposition.
Ellick Hellwanger surprised the Dog
Hill preacher by going to the church
last third Sunday. When he went in
| several looked around and appeared sur
prised as ElEck is considered sinner
and they wondered what he was doing
there.
A swarm of bumblebees got after Co.
lumbus Allsop Wednesday morning and
pursued him for several miles before he
could get home and shut the door. The
bees then settled on the door knob where
they will wait for him to come out.
The Standard Oil Company cannot get
the best of Washington Hooks. Every
time the company raises the price of its
oil he turns his light down little bit
lower.
A committee started over to Thunder
alton neighborhood the other day with
lot of flowers for sick man but changed
their minds before carrying out the
movement deciding that it would be
better to wait until the man died.
Miss Flute Belcher has appeared
! along with the flowers and other natur-
al beauties of Spring with new pink
dress that fits both going and coming.
Everything is complete about the dress
except the buttons have not yet been
put on but until then she will use pins.
While passing under a tree on the
Gimlet creek road the other day Fit
| Smith was hit on the head by someone.
Fit at once notified the deputy constable
to look for the man higher up.
The Excelsior Fiddling Band had an
engagement to act as an orchestra for
| the TIckville opera house during a show
there Saturday night but the band got
so interested in the things going on on
the stage they forgot all about playing
until it was too late.
Slim Pickene has been engaged by
Luke Mathswela to stand in his water
melon patch this summer with an old
ragged hat on.
We need more light on this potato
planting proposition. There are persons
who declare that If potatoes are planted
in the full of the moon there will be much
vine but no potatoes. What do you
think about it? One man argues that if
ocean it surely can affect an Irish potato.
While shoeing Yam Sims mule the
other day, Dry Brain Clark let the mule
get squint at him-story continued in
Obituary Notices.
| Miss Flute Belcher smiled at Goslin
Clark the other night at the Hog Ford
| church sociable. She said that if it had
been any other place she'd have laughed
right out loud.
Washington Hooks has donated pop
corn pepper to the Dog Hill church for
to take up contributions with so every
body can see how much the Old Miser
gives.
Yam Sims while at Pounding Billows
Tuesday morning bought lot of bologna
sausage but says it was so tight he could
hardly eat it.
The Tickville Tidings depIores the pub
LEGATION of such a large number of
| papers in the United States. The editor
says nearly everybody he approaches
is already taking more papers than they
can read.
Ellick Hellwanger has snapped for a
new pistol and is preparing to shoot
man over near Thunderation as soon as
he can get his witnesses organized.
Dock Hooks, who has been operating
his barber shop out under the tree in
front of of his blacksmith shop since
the warm weather set in will have to
move back inside as the rain washes the
lather off the faces of his customers.
The Hogwallow Postmaster received
very inquisitive letter the other dav
from the government. 1t inquired into
all of the private affairs of the office
and he is so indignant he refuses to
answer it.