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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
Over the Back Fence.

"C'mon over to my house an les play
sojer. Cmon. Betty. | got a sword.
have, an my mother Tented me her
white belt to hold 1t on"
Betty shook her pale gold head The
motion seemed to carry her slim body
in like oscillations.
Jaw c'mon. I'll let you wear Il too !;
, homes | Will When get big I'm gonna
go to war am, an carry a great big.
Great b-i-g gun. Maybe might
go purity soon now"
No answering note OF admiration
| shone in the Betty blue eyes
Il dassent." she ventured at length.
| scratching one bare leg with a scuffed
tan toe.
why dassent YOU" demanded the
miniature soldier with all the wrath
Of insulted childhood.
Cos your names Hans. an papa
Gays no darter Of his can play with any
! Hanscs or Helneses."
why cart they"
! The small hand instnctivoly souch,
the hlt Of the toy sword thrust through
the discarded leather belt.
"'Cos my papa says they's Germans
and they live on pigs knucltlcs an sour
cabhages"
"Id licfer be Germans than old
| Trenches anyhow like your father is
Trenches eat frawg.. Yah. yah. yah,
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Across the Bonbons.

They were propped among tho
cushions in Muriels houdoir, nibhline
maraschino cherries coated with chp'".
late, and rolling on their tongues witt
the sweets m" latest and choicest lit.
OF gossip about town l. was one OF
those times when n" guilty party "s'
capes. and when even the innocent come
In for a portion Of the paru!ns.
Having temporarily run out " ma
,erlal the conversation careened I,
clothes. always an exciting suhioc. fol
fcmininity.
MY dear, I'm hcarthrokon. simply
heartbr9ken," sighed Mu"irl. "1ll never
he the same again. Never.
Anita occupying the env.ahle position
OF best chum, stopped consuming choc"'
lates long enough 10 ask in II tone
tipped with extreme ennui:
What now? Is your pet pom n
or is Ned being rice to that titan hare,
Gates girl again
Neither. You've taken the wronp
tack this time. Mia. Something nue.
worse than anything YOU have guessed.
Your mother found you'd pawnod ,
ring 20 bet on Tony Sanbourne's horse 90
NO. dearest. Worse than .hat
Father says II the war lasts any longer
I'll have to do without IN" moloskif
coat lined with crmne he promised m,
this winter, and We can't 90 to Pain
Reach"
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An infantry skirmish.

he held the coffee cup while the other
continued to pour the fragrant brown
liquid which overlooked the saucer and
f,il in spreading pool on the tiled
floor
Never again will I talk or read war
in a restaurant" declared the man In
blue. when all signs OF Jeans faux pas
had been removed 81 got about a
quart Of that boiling coffee right be-
tween the shoulders. Yesterday |
punched in a German food emporium
and while peacefully perusing war
map | drew plate OF soup in about
the same spot
The hat boys keep me waiting five
minutes while they rush out To read the
war bulletins The waiter can't take
my order until he tells the other wait
crs about how the Zouaves made the
th!ans run like a stray dog IN a
stranCs ward In the midst Of my steak
minute the chef stops to see IL the hovs
are on this side or the other side Of
tho Mouse
The bus hristles with penny posters
screaming shot and shell Tho man I
take to luncheon shows how Germany
can't lose and the man who takes mo
go dinuo~ Shove rrc how q 7~mluy can't
win have war from hors d'Puvres
to dcmi tasse The only way ! can Nag
waiter these days is To carry ma
chine gun. Service has certainly gone
'bla.'"
'If YOU want your war news served
with dinner. why don't you lock your
self ia Your room with Few dozen
papers and cheese sandwich" suC-
gcsted the girl with the tan.
THAT sounds safe enough" said the
man in blue. brushing some odd drops
of coffee from his sleeve.
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In the Millinery Shop.

n.y. "'"'a"'v' - 80 .""' ''''
i''''o'I rom al 10 80 ''''' 80 ,Nu"'
'',r, - su..'n w Wv Iie' VI ,'''u"''''
-. ~" ".'s w S'',' 49, w ~
a,s,,,. III ,atr dross.r,,
No''' IN. nv" ""'- $500,
Va. ''. ~ - t,,,,an, ss,,,o an,,I, ",
,,ao,ao,.
cho hoid tho ,l,,,-di,. s,,,o, ,,bi1 .,
.,,o ,.a,,.a, ut, ,,,a,. CIV ha,J I,
H., ,,,o,,,.., ,1,,,ira,i,, r,o,,o
,ha ,I,,sh roso on hor chceLe boar n
ha,.rd,rir, roson,h,aroo 20 H. bardI.
yvorl ~ Nature
",rd ,ha nric, >" ,sked tho customer.
r,o,.ins rroasi,,. IN ,hc fraiI oil, chair
Sn 90 ,o,,,,d ,ho mir -, nrrnl. with
to- stns,,a ,,ns,,,dirc cnclfoda strangely
ra,oina,,rc 7, was a n.ryo,,s momont.
..>,adoma mus, unaere.,nI maj no.
causo ~ tho war-so few models-it is
It, zoo sod"
,raors n,arn IN TIA o,es ., tho de-
.,andaa d,,choss tIor yoica was nItched
T., ,o,sa,,o ,-o,,oio
vas L,ow hu, ,,ou haven't told
ma ,be nrico"
"yad,,,a car havo M notion Of tho
atcc,cv.,y arcourto-oa in bringing our
-. ,rha,. ura-a tr,nsnor,ed
In autonohi,ee from parIs IN gIavro at
,,roa, tel % ~. ~ our huvor u ,zcns
~ times thew vera held up by the
$50. Tho cos, ~ reecuo waste, II,
.a,, Dronostsrous
3pr, n,,r huynr che 10 hr,v. She
/ ,orcod hor uay through and here th@y
aro ro,o IN. worse for the adventure
7, "a n lave nest uaso"
"yo, bu, tho nrice How ,nuchp"
"0f course we have earlier models
so,, ho,,ro w,r was really berun. We
oro most fortunate in HAVING selected
,,d sbinpod our ear,ier models weeks
hofore orr confrores even though, OF
huyinp Thee would be happy for one
I -two".three. our models. They
have none Not one model haye they
sror paris Hut madame-sho would
,,,,r, IN. yer-r.v latest broupht through
w. ha,,Io lines"
"rbe nrice--"
"ot.or,,a horo q ,oo,o y, tonoz crene
/ !, .-,,,,, h,,dod !, or,o,,,I STYLE
~" woo,t,,a o,,io M, ma, mill.
-, -, me- ,us, ho ,,,lit,rv
, 80 ,,a",,o, T., r,,r,,o &c mt, on m,
, ms C.asao,,,, .mrhor 7, is deli.
INES 81 VI, 'I $50 :,
'" ,rr;co," casned the customer. who
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ny JANE DIXON.

rAR, War war;
A You can't get away from Il.
w Try using any OF the polite
pla,itudes that once kept the
oaversa,lonal ball rolling and see how
you hold your audience. They will sim
py wax N What care they about
such subjects as golf scores or the best
ray 10 make Jelly out OF apple parings?
Tine was when tho ordinary happen
KS Of everyday lie We're Of passing
,.res, El, i is different now.
g. whe-c ga viii do what you dare.
b wha. YOU may. the war wrath is
lAere ahead II YOU.
There S war to the right Of you, war
. the - ~ YOU war above and below
sat all around YOU waking or sic p
"a cons ..us or unconscious, war is
Nth You
L,s',n'
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In the Restaurant.

rNcy v.r, o0 the last lap of tho
--r..d chicken Nth generous helping
thg rcy uu the SIDE.
when ID" Ma. too.hsome bit had
,7a 81. way ,r an good food the four
FROSTED their forks in the manner pro-
.-.b.d 90, ,'..n.tt pull 4 themselves
aek comfortably In their chairs and
'r,n a d..,u,.ry solrch for the tangled
..aal ., ..ry f.l,.nn
Wei" hr.l'h.d no man with the
--e'o,. Nu. sur and the negligee coll
r. 'thrg certainly wai,opcd William
da,. 4, ,hc.r... those @ rmans are
Going they VIII roach the furthcst point
mr,A IN , few DAYS"
Tn, well .,ly,d mustacha Of Jean the
walter pointed skyward in manner
plainly Indicating the up curve AT the
'orner. M T,.,r.s month II dashed
aver 20 brush an imaginary crumh from
The cloth AZ tho .peaker's elbow.
"CoHae r,rc.n." ordered the man
with the DISTINGUISHED looking dab Of
yyhlskars an his chin and the genial air
n, op,l-nism
Garoor ,,s gone
careful svr,ov discovered him Ges-
tc,-ar,rg wildly f., tho face OF A fellow
rarcor a. , sory.r, table some distance
away
"v,Lo , .,ty. r,l... n ,re.zel and he'll
came f,s, .r.,,,,h " advisod the man in
Mn.
"rvo ,,,d hin, ,brao +ines n bring
~ rr.,,t ,,.,r,." comr,aincd the
bond ma, y1, unra brown and a
mo,o,,o
~, .,-.,. .,..-, ,o,,n od,.isod +ha
WI n,,t, 49,, .., a.I ~, ,,,,,l,,o "C,n't
v,r saa h,,. c'h,'.,,, ,,r his native
i,rao T., a., ,,r. ,,,., ha,,,. we may
%, or- ,.er,, '''''
~r 49,. I - ,,,, ,,r, ~ "a.
Lets see u We can UP MN o" VIC
,,,sr,,-, IN ..ar. .' Gh s,un'd,"
'. "n, ID S'att IT, VI" s'up'u'
.on .,'',,.,
aCs ,, 80
~. ~. nam W.T., l., ,ar.d
hermann Rot MN VINO was IL uateo
oSior "'', ~ 80 ''s 'J'' w. Ue
vnui1 '' "'''
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In the Subway.

He was launched we'll back in his
seat. on his left sat a fashionably
gowned girl who rearraNged her taft
feta silk skirt and glowercd every time
he attempted to turn a page OF his
paper
on his right a stout woman with
numerous bundles OF all shapes and
sizes managed TO hang on to the edge
If the scat and at the same time to
vitatiOn of his
IF you want paper madam, II buy
you one at the next stop" he offered
icidly.
their papers twice to he sure they get
their pcnnys worth" rctortcd the scout
woman Il was only rlarcing over tho
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You Attempt to Discuss Ordinary Happenings of Every
day Life You Will Find No Audience, as European
Conflict Is Sole Topic in All Quarters

Hans Mueller. We got a dog what eats
Germans"
An hour passes
Betty. no. B-e-t-t-y."
The pale gold head continues TO be
turned in a direction exactly opposite
the one from which emanates an in
sistent voice.
Betty. 1 amt no Germans. Homes
I amt. My mother says so. asst her.
Use 'Merican."
A flash OF gold across the lawn and
Betty is at the place where the absence
Of picket admits the passage of a
small body from back yard to back
yard.
"Oh Hans. goody glad. asted
mamma and she says I'm a 'Merican
too Les play soJer You can be the
! Genrul an I'll be the one what
| marches"
"Awright. Stand straight. Left, left
| rft-wight-icft"
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| finished those last two lines. I
wanted to see what they said about war
making the price of food higher"
Help yourself. Here's my stop. I'm
getting on. Any one with your nerve
ought to eat for nothing"
Thanks. So sweet of YOU" smirkcd
the stout woman, spreading herself
and the paper over two and a half
seats.
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Whats the damages?" inquired the
husband, whose financial back had been
considerably sprained by the war.
one hundred and fifty dollars,
timidly.
Great CRsar's ghost" came the roar
There isn't that much money in the
world"
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wagon. ,,.t the smiling parry
"S,and Ia ..Yc. ch. have some big fat
head tell me TO charge, and 7 have to
charge. Not for mine. want to live
for my country. Have no ambitions 20
be brought home all bundled up in an
American flag. I'm the guy that wants
to wave the fag."
"You and both" seconded III" ti'l
man. Amy time there is n peace pni-
ley am there like = couple Of duck-'
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war bulletins. Didn't hurt your old
paper any, did II"
"Ch-huh. When I turned over to
follow the Belgians you acted as II l
was turning your paper. 1t makes me
nervous"
Guess you could have waited until
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

drrislvely, who wouldn't liefer eat
saucrkrauts as frawgs?"
They do not eat frogs" screech ed
the tortured Betty. jumping up and
down and twisting her face into violent
contortions at the shr!ekiEg Hans.
An don't you never dare come in my
yard again, never as long as you live,
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what? You have the nerve to stand
there and say you wouldn't fight for
your country? a fine patriot you
are"
Plight for my country sounds like
one OF those things =. T. Barnum used
to paste on the sides OF his band
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Seven Or .housau. otter Instances
and IH"i3"4'a e She sd topic of CON
vtl.a.iln m gh. by mentioned but space
Is short and time Is already tripping
along toward he next big thrill.
So soon the world forgats.
Next?
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AUTUMN RESORTS.


NEW NOKK-BrCnIvillc.
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AUTUMN RESORTS.
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NIN JEit-i.i Mont, lair.
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
MaxVilIe
People can now gather their scan

People can now gather their scant
crops.
Tom Lamar was at Batesville
the first part of the week
G. r. Ballard is on the puny list
He has something like rheumatism
c. B, Snow was in Sidney Mon
day attending to matters of busi-
ness,
W. V. Duncan attended the Odd
Fellows Grand Lodge at Little Rock
this week,
W, N, Landreth of Evening Shade
passed through here Monday en
route to Cave City,
Mr.. and Mrs j. F. Provence are
the happy parents of a fine GIRL
born a few days ago,
c. X, Vance, who has been resid-
Ing In Lawrence county for the past
few months, has moved back to
the Maxville section.
c, ?, Bray, j. A, Duncan, John
Vance, and Anderson Vance tried
the cotton market at Batesville the
first part of the week,
MIR, and Mrs Walter Kent of Sui,
Ivan township were visiting In the
Heelstring Nation Saturday and
Sunday, guests of Mr. and Mrs, Bud
Meeker,
Verne, the little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, W, o, Davis, was buried
at the cemetery here Sunday after
noon and the parents many friends
sympathlze with them In their be-
feavement,
The people Of this section met
Monday and picked a nice lot Of
cotton for Ohio Ballard, lie has
had 50 much sickness In his family
this fall that he has been unable to
dather his entton,
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
Field Sports

When you keep a boy interested
in football, baseball, tennis, and the
like, you lessen the chances that he
will get interested in things not so
good for him.
The Youths Companion, since its
enlargement, gives generous space
to this matter Of athletic training,
and gets the best coaches in the
country to write for it.
How to practice to become a first
rate pitcher, how to train for a
race, how to learn the newest
strokes in swimming-these and a
hundred other topics of the greatest
inteSest to boys-to girls, too, for
that matter-are touched upon in
this important department of The
Companion.
And this is only a small part of
the service which The Companion
renders in any home which it en-
ters. 1t has points of contact with
a hundred interests
If you do not know the Compan-
ion as it is to-day, let US send you
one or two current issues free, that
you may thoroughly test the papers
quality We will send also the
Forecast for 1915.
Every new subscriber who sends
81 90 for the fifty-two weekly issues
of 1915 will receive free all the is
sues of the remainingweeks of 1914;
also The Companion Home Calender
for 1915,
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
LA Berkely Street, Boston, Mass.
New subscriptions received at
this office
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
MObley

Chas, Bowers has completed a
new residence.
Fine weather for crop gathering,
but the big crops are not here.
l., Longs cotton Gin at Shelby
vile has put up about a hundred
bales
School will open at Mt. View the
second Monday in November, with
Miss Hattie Bowers as teacher
E. B. Andrews left the first part
of the week for Little Rock, where
he is attending the Odd Fellows
grand lodge,
There is no excitement in the
state of Scott over next weeks ell
ection, and 1t is not at all probable
that our folks will fall over each
other to Get to vote.
The low price of cotton is the
general topic of conversation among
our people, Also the low price of
the fleecy staple is the cause of
hard times in our beloved Wild Cat
Corner.
A great deal more wheat, oats
and rye have been sown in this
section this fall than for many
years past, Some men now have
wheat crops who have not sown
wheat before in fifteen years.
G, W Watkins and W. H. West
were at Evening Shade Wednesday
attending the meeting of the quorum
court, Mr., Watkins went to the
county seat Wednesday of last
week to attend quorum court, and
that makes the joke on him.
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
MYERS SPEAKS ON
RAIL ROAD PROJECT
Interest In Proposed Line
Said To Be Increasing In
Certain Sections.

j. w. Myers, one of the five pro-
motors of the proposed interurban
railway to be built through this Sec
ton, addressed a good crowd at the
court house in Evening Shade We'd
nesday. He talked at length on the
several propositions contained in the
contract to be made between each
individual land owner and the pro-
motors.
Briefly, the conditions and agree
ments under which the road is prop
osed to be built are Amy land
owner can subscribe the mineral
rights on part OF all of his land, no
deed of mineral rights to be made
until the company is Incorporated,
at which time said rights shall be
decided to said company, the
members of which company are the
owners who subscribed the mineral
rights, and who own 81 l-2 per cent
of the capital stock, The owners,
holding seven-eighths of the stock,
have a controlling interest and vir-
tually own the company. When
the sum of 100000 acres of mineral
rights has been subscribed the
rights will be pooled, or combined,
and the company Incorporated, 1t
Is provided that all persons who
deed any mineral rights shall re-
ceive S2500 stock in the company
for each acre Of mineral rights, If
at any time the corporation becomes
inactive or ceases to exist the rights
revert TO the owner
Interest In the project Is growing
continually, especially in the west
ern part Of Lawrence county and
that section Of Sharp county bor-
dering on Lawrence county,
1t Is hard to find any means In
the contract whereby a thing Is to
be lost aud apparently everything Is
to be gained, That railway facili-
ties are necessary to the develop
ment Of Sharp county Is a fact that
has been admitted by our citizens
for half a century Our people have
been taken advantage of on one OF
two similar occasions by would.be
promoters and naturally some are
very skeptlcal and reserved In the
matter of railroad gossip,
As to the enterprise now In hand,
It Is to all appearances sound In ev-
cry detail and conservative from d
l,.aiaaaa atanInat.E
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
King Mills

Walter Murphy is on the SICK =,
,,,t and is threatened with typhoid
fever. ;,
Rev George Rogers will preach
Of Corinth next Sunday, and a large
crowd should hear him.
Rev. George Rogers was meeting
his friends and attending to some
business at Evening Shade one day
! this week.
i A largely increased amount 5t OF
,,hoat has been sown in Davidson
ltownship this fall. The same is
sfrue of rye and oats.
Hogs are very scarce throughout
his section, and cattle have been
shinped out cleaner than was ever
BILL
Known before. Feed stuff is 50
$carce that many people are unable
b winter stock
\ v Underwood went to the
soutbern District county seat We'd
aesday to attend levying court,
rso Underwood has been Davidson
township's only justice of the peace
.Ipce Arvid Holt moved away.
Wallace Horton went to Evening
Made Wednesday to look after some
b,,siness matters. Mr.. Horton will
h Davidson townships road over
aeer for the next two years, having
Zen chosen in the general election
M take the place of W. D. Rogers,
i democratic nominee, who NOV
to Hardy
n Rev. Swift Anderson, pastor OF
Methodist church on the Ash
Il circuit, preached his last SER
h at Corinth for the present con-
lsIence year last Sunday. During
|Ihe past year Rev. Anderson made
many friends here, and many of
6ur people hope he will be returned
D1Ythe conference.
GREAT many families have
In0Ped away from Davidson town
lib in the past few weeks. Within
(Wo miles of the home of this writ
8 There are at least twenty-five
ecant houses, and a great many
Ins present a desolate appear
1ce their owners or tenants hav-
Zone to other sections to find
Enjoyment. This is due to the
upst total failure of crops in this
Ion. That there are close times
hand and in store for the people
ne is no doubt, but we will all
Qme out of the tight place some
and we trust that way may
Qpened up by which the financial
Iession may be relieved.
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
Sidney

J. P. Bone was a business visitor
at BateSville one day this week.
Prof John Felts spent Saturday
night with relatives at Cave City.
King Bone and Charley Hightow-
er were Batesville visitors a few
days ago.
Sam Evans came up from Bates
vile Saturday for a visit with his
family here.
J. P Eason of Emery was visit
or in Sidney one day the first part
Of the week.
c. B. Snow, a substantial citizen
of Maxville, was in Sidney on bust
ness Monday.
Rev. Sam Adams of Hickory Val
ley was meeting his friends in Sid
ney Saturday.
j. H. Kirtley and A. B. Arm
shipped another car of cattle to
market this week.
The young people were entertain
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Sid
Kent Saturday night.
R. c. Founders, who formerly re-
sided here, is up from Cord paying
relatives and old friends a visit.
W, V. Duncan was over from
Maxville one day this week seeing
his friends and looking after busi-
ness.
A. L. Due, who is principal of the
public school at Zion, was here Sat-
urday and Sunday visiting his
friends.
Gordon Lassiter and j. H. Kirt-
ley are at Little Rock this week in
attendance at the Odd Fellows
grand lodge.
W. c. Dawson of Lepanto, Poin-
sett county, was here transacting
some business matters the latter
part Of last week.
The free school will open on the
second Monday in November, at
which time the attendance will of
course be largely increased.
The public school literary society
held its first meeting last Friday
night. A large crowd was present
and a fine program rendered.
j. A. Westmoreland, one of our
Oldest and best citizens, returned
Monday from Batesville, where he
spent some time with relatives and
friends.
Milton Nichols addressed the
crowd at Sunday school last Sun
day morning, and his remarks were
we'll received and appreciated by
all who heard them.
A large and appreciative aud
fence heard Rev. j. P. Bone, the
Presbyterian minister. who preach
ed at his church here Sunday morn.
ing and at night also.
Sharp County record., 1914-10-30
Cave City

Shool is progressing fine. We
nEoIl fed seven new pupils Monday
Lahan Bros, shipped a carload of
ne cattle to the St, Louis market
NJ Week
G.N Brewer has been having
ome Carpenter work done on his
ouae lately,
Everybody seems to be busy
lnofine their crops and sowing
lnter crops.
We are having some cold wealth
pul 1t is fine on the farmers who
aveNheat sown,
ne School boys have ordered a
Aet ball So you surrounding
ua1 pad better look out,
Pre- glad to say that R. A.
Qnnaon, who has been i'll for some
gradually recovering
curh boys crossed bats here
ne Cave City boys last Satur-
pres ! to 81 in favor of Cave
ndma" Barnett, who has been
her daughter Mrs. c. N.
Evening Shade returned
Bowers, who Is now one of
e City High School boys,
no@e folks at Mobley Satur-
onQ Sunday.
Young men of this place ORD.
zed 4 debating club last Friday
the school house. Come
and hear them.
Msimpson has Just recently
ve'o Gave City from Evening
ade, He will begin teaching in
'caool here within a short time
llo'rell, while digging his
potatoes q few days ado
very large one weighing
pounds and three ounces
'7'' So'o ior twenty-five cents,
Z. Horton filled his reeu.
n,lnent at the NJ +. Church
,nlS place last Sunday and
'sn' and large crowds at