The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1915-05-12
CLIPPINGS FROM THE
SNAGT0WN T0RCHLIGHT

ter, w. Z. Herman, was out at TN
time, however, and is still consid
cred straight.
Mrs. DR.. de Whopper has writer
to the "Advice to the Lovelorn" de
! partment of city paper asking fol
a recipe for the cure of the SUI
grins. Miss Josephine Billiard say
eating green gooseberries is the bes
cure she knows Of.
The main street at Snagtowr
looks deserted since the hogs ant
cows have been prohibited from run.
ming at large.
John st. Clair is spending the week
at the postoffice, watching the dirt
dobbers build their nests on the raf-
ters. This is the only job Of work
John ever watched without suggest
ing a better way to do it.
| dad" Schrecengost's wagon broke
down on the road leading to Panther
creek Tuesday morning. He has not
yet decided whether he will have it
REPAIRED or not.
A rainbow was seen east Of here
Thursday, but it evaporated before
anybody could reach it from this
place.
The early spring crop Of vege-
tables and the mail carriers buggy
are needing rain very bad.
A man from the Coon Holler
neighborhood was in Snagtown yes
terday and tried to sell the postmas-
ter load of wood for use next win
ter. That gentleman should sit
down somewhere and take a good
long rest, as he is living entirely too
far in advance.
A home talent play is being gotten
up by the Possum Ridge school
teacher and will be presented in a
short time at the school house. There
is supposed to real battleship in
the play and the teacher has writ
ten to the navy department.
First thunderstorm of the season.
Three moonshine stills were struck,
but reports say that lightning got
the worst Of tin fact, was splin-
tered and scattered all over the
country.
There was singing school at How
ard Skeletons last Friday night and all
report a nice time. Howard is i'm
proving at this writing.
AL Williams, the Peavine Ridge
prophet says: "T prophesized accord
ing to my lights bout the world COM
in to a end when the big war broke
ont, but bein' only human, I didn't
land it. But it's all clear to me
now. It's my opinion that Provi-
dence decided it was best to let 'em
fight it out q while longer till they
beat some sense in each others
heads. They amt fitten to 60 to
Judgement now, but soon as they're
able to tell why they went to war
an what in thunder they're fghtin'
For they'll be called on to explain"
John Dashner let his imagination
run away with him Friday night
when he saw strange white some-
thing sitting on tombstone in Slate
Hill graveyard.
John st. Clair has done away
with his big Waterbury watch. John
says he has passed many a pleasant
hour with it, and hates to give it up,
but he no longer needs it as he has
plenty Of time without it.
AL Gunther has set into courting a
head-headed girl near the Wildcat
school house. 1t is believed that he
doesn't care anything about her and
IS only going there TO make Miss Joe
Billiard think more Of him.
Clement Manning will raise a wa
Ter melon patch on Peavine Ridge
his summer, but on account of the
neighbors he will poison all of the
melons as fast as they get ripe.
The blind man Of the Coon Holler
neighborhood is preparing to send
20 Snagtown after change for half
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