The Hartford republican., 1913-03-14
Hogwallow News.


bit setting by the roadside just this
side OF Bounding Billows Tuesday
morning. and he expected to stop
and shoot it upon his return Tues
day evening, but IL had fled.
The Old lliser OF Musket Ridge is
letting the fire die down in his fire.
place and warns his feet in the cook
stove. The smoke wears out his
chimney.
Miss Hcljtetter Hooks sang several
nice songs at the Rye straw socia6lc
the other night. She was assisted
over the high places by Raj. Barlow
on his little fiddle.
The Tickvllle Tidings has editor
tally come out against compulsory
prohibition.
The Wild Onion school teacher
lectured on the United States Fri
day night. We were surprised to
see such a large and intelligent aud
ience out. In the course of his re-
marks he paid a glowing tribute to
our country, and it is pity that
could not have been there to hear
him. One reason we keep so far
ahead OF other nations, said he, is
that we are getting up and going to
work on this side every morning
while the people around on the 9TH
er side are just going to bed.
In giving his opinion OF the suffra-
gette business, Tobe Moseley the
other morning stated that there was
enough argument already going on
around the house without adding
politics.
Wash Hooks notices that the pub
lie makes an awful to-do about it
when some Bill passes the House at
Washington. He says somebody
passes his house nearly every day.
But Bat Smith says if anything has
yet passed the still house he hasn't
Senate.
Yam Sims caused a flutter of ex-
citement in our midst one day this
week by galloping up in front of the
postoffice and announcing that he
had just met a green colored mule
down the road. While Yam is re-
garded as a truthful church member,
the crowd could scarcely believe
their ears, and a delegation started
out to view the mule with their own
eyes. They looked up and down the
road for several miles, and when
they got back to the postofiice they
found that Yam had looked at an
ordinary sorrel mule through green
glasses.
The conversation at the postoffice
the other night drifted from the in
down neraer TO home,
and the subject of buzzards was
dwelt upon at length by Luke Ma
thewsla and others. Frisby Han
cock recalled that he had seen prob
ably the biggest and Oldest one on
record. He said this one roasted
over in an old barn in the Calf Ribs
and was a hundred and
twenty years old. 1t measured more
than fifty feet from tip to tip, and
many a time he says he has seen 1t
swoop down and take a COW right
out of the pasture in its claws, and
feed it to the young ones.
Jefferson Potlocks has a grievance
against the high handed manner in
which the government does bust
ness. He says when it began to lay
out the parcel post system, 1t cut
the country up into small units. and
never asked anybody for a right-of-
way through their farms.
Cricket Hicks observed Lincoln's
by attempting to split
rail.
One reason why the flea is so sem
sitive to noise is that most any noise
is bigger than the average flea.
Slim Pickens has purchased a dish
pan from the Tin Peddler. and is
trying to join the Tickville Band.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
won it's great reputation and extern
sive sale by its remarkable cures OF