Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-04-05
Hits, Fits and
MiSfitS ......
BY BILL TODD
Wherein he Says ......
Anything he Wants to Say

off on the stove and floor, spa
about a pint of tobacco juice il
the cat S eyes, lay down on Isaiah :
bed, and expostulated thusly
Boys, she shore does rain. This
kind of weather makes me think
about fishing, but have give VI
the idea of ever going a fishing
again. No use to go-you can't
ketch fish without beer. You just
have to have little beer to pour
on the red worms, and then you
are liable to get snake bit and you
have to carry along with you a
little snake bite medicine, and as
the bone dry law prevents or pro-
hibits either, l have fully made up
my mind not to risk my time and
life fishing any more, But mark
my prediction, boys, In less
than ten years, you can go either
to Ocoee or .Hiwasse and scoop up
the FISH like you do corn, they will
be so plenty. Stand back, boys,
and let me get up. I must go.
Here comes Isaiah and he will
want his bed.
There is considerable talk now
about the high cost O living, and
congress has appointed investiga
ton committees to try to find out
the cause. Now it may be alright
to appoint investigation committees
alright for the committees, but I
don't see any use in going to so
much expense. 1t may help the
committees to solve their own high
cost of living, but as to the gen
eral Question-well that seems as
easy to me as it is for a turtle to
slip off of slick log. Well there
are several reasons for the high
cost, but the two greatest ones are
over consumption and under
production one working and nine
loahng. Saunter along down the
streets of most any town and you
Will see a lot of fellows sitting
administering how Woodrow has
made a mistake in this, that and
the other, while somebody else is
working and trying to make a
living for them. They are having
q GOOD time and it's not costing
them ANYTHING to live. so why
should they worry. ] am remind
ed of what the preacher said the
other Sunday. He said there are
church members who had been
members for ten years and who
would sit around and brag that it
had never cost them one twenty
FIVE cents. He said, If you are
a chnrch member and it hasn't
cost you twenty FIVE cents in ten
years, it has cost the rest of the
members like blazes. And that
is the way with the high cost of
living.
Say, speaking of preachers.
Rev. Fogleman preached an ex-
cellent sermon at the Methodist
church, Sunday. There was a
very good crowd out to hear him,
but plenty of room for more.
4 Say, while l think about it.
Wouldn't it be well enough to be-
gin thinking about cleaning up or
destroying the breeding places for
the deadly house fy9 l notice
some of the people are screening
their front porches, which is all
right. But that will not do away
with the fly. 1t is agreed by most
everybody that there are only two
ways to catch typhoid fever, and
they are either to eat or to drink
the fever germs, so then if you
have typhoid fever, amt it a dis
grace on your part or gross neg
ligence on the part of someone
else? We go to great expense to
get rid of the cattle ticks. and the
State and county keep men in the
county every year to try to get rid
of the cattle tick and we go on
year in and year out and make no
particular effort to get rid of the
nasty house fly. OF course folks
don,t sell on the market like cat