The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-01
Close Shave
That's What Rev. sanI Meore,
Our Beloved Pastor & Deacon
Andrews Had BY Trusting Their
sells In the Hands Of I
strangsr---lst This Be . Warn
Ing T. All! 49,. =

Last 'Thursday morning 4 stranger
whose name we did not lern while
passing through Bingville in = big otty-
nobel had somethink to happen to one
of his tires which he called . punk
shure right In front of the parsonage
where Rev. Saml Moore our beloved
pastor resides, 80 the TELLER stopped the
masheen and begin to tinker with it.
Rev. Moore diddent know he was
around until he heerd . stream Of per-
family which come In through the win
der into the parsons study where he
was preparing his next Sunday sermon
and so Rev. Moore went out In front
of the house to see who was using sich
unseemly langwidge and told the Teller
that he ort not to talk like that and thus
words to that effeclet. When the stran-
ger learnt that Rev. Moore was min
lister of the gospel he let up on the
swearing a good cal and explained that
he wouldn't of swore 80 wicked except
he was In hurry and then to have =
tire punlkshure on him was most more
than he could stand.
Bye and bye Deacon Andrsws who Il
also stanch piller in the church come
along and him and Rev. Moore set
down in the shade under q tree and
watched the Teller tinker with the ma
sheen and give him their moral support
az it were. When the feller got the
ottymobeel fixd he stood up and looked
at Rev. Moore and the Deacon and says,
What town 10 this or Is it town p
Then Rev. Moore speaks up and eays
yes It is town named Bingvi1le. Then
the stranger says, did you two Hicks
ever ride In = buzz-wagonf
Deacon Andrews says, You've got
our names wrong, Mister-~our names
amt Hicks. I'm Deacon Andrews and
this is Rev. Moore the pastor of our
church-the Hickses lives two miles
west" Then the Teller laffed and
asked en- if they'd like to have ride
in the ottymobeel and they both said
they would being as they haddent never
been in one afore 50 they elm in.
What folders simply beggars descrip-
shion. That teller turned on somethink
and the masheen started down through
town 50 fast it couldn't skeercely be
saw by the human eye. Rev. Moore
lated that was fast enuff, but the Teller
| just LATED and made it 60 faster When
the wheels struck culvert in front of
Hen Weathersbys store the Deacon and
Rev. Moore was bounced clean into the
air and landed on the seat agin 20 hard
that they thort their back bones had
went up through their hats both OF
which was Knocked often their heads
and Lit in the road behipt
BY this time the Deacon and Rev
Moore was turrihle scairt and their eyes
buRHed out like. beetles. Half the time
they was in the air and the rest of the
time they was holdin on to the seat OF
to each other for dear life.
| Finally Deacon Andrews begin to q,
hot under the collar and he YIELD to
the stranger, You stop this dingbusted
contrapshion and let me out, dod-gasi
you, er III give you drubbin" The
stranger jest looked back and laffed and
then went Eastern ever. Then Deacor
! Andrews lost his temper and begin to
swear At the man who was maxim the
car go so fast The langwidge the Dea-
/ con used was awful to hssen to espesh.
tally coming from Deacon in TIN
church Then the parson hollerd at thu
kDeacoo, DO not swear. Brotlsex. -