The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-03-01
HogwalloW News
DUNK soTTs. Regular corespoadss
 By George Bingham

Rag Bardlow felt so good the other morning he went over to the black smith shop and tried to lift the an viii
 | Cricket Hicks, who has been look ing for light job for some time, has | accepted the position of lifting feath- CTS for the Tin Peddler. Dock Hooks says person has a hard time keeping the Conversation | going when the weather remains Il about the same.
 Luke Mathewsla, who has been sit ting up close to the fire all this win ter moved his chair back few inches this week. .~ Fl Miss Fruzie Allsop spent Tuesday morning at the home of Miss Hos letter Hooks in an effort to find out what Miss Hostetter paid for her new hat.
 The wife of Sim Flinders has been so hoarse for the past fewf days she cannot speak. This is great relief to Sim, say his neighbors. Prof. Sap Spradlin says the reason lead is so heavy is that there is so much of it in a small piece.
 Dock Hooks, during one of the wheatless days this week was won dering what Daniel Boone did for wheat bread and chewing tobacco
 Bat Smith, congenial and nccommo dating proprietor of the moonshine still, has announced that in order to comply with a request of the Dep1ty Constable, he will keep his fr0nt door closed on Sunday, but for the conye- nience of his patrons wiH receive them through the back dooF-
 Poke Eazley has gone to the 0nudor I Creek bottoms on hunting expedi- tion Poke is feared by a1l of the wild animals in this vicinity and they always climb a tree or run into hole when they get a look at him.
 Winter is about over and the old Miser who took down his front fence and stored it away until spring, will have to bring it out and put ft up.
 Cricket Hicks entertained few of his close friends last night in honor of his pay day.
 The income tax man was in Hog wallow a few days last week, but met with mighty poor success, as nobody around here had taken in anything since the five dollars Slim Pickens made working for wheat thresher | last summer.
 ,hD ox,ho photos of some people he takes every thing in the world they have
 The Wild Onion school teac'kr has full developed case of small pox and all his pupils have been exposed to it. However, the Horse Doctor says there is no danger in spread of the disease owing to the fact that it is customary for every child lin and about Hogwallow to wear small bag of asafoedita to a string around his neck and eat garlic at every meal
 Slim Pickens has entered society and since doing so has put insect powder on his mule and greases his buggy with vaseline.
 Things are expected to get. acti.i around here as soon as the snakeI and feas sesin to arrive.
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 Before tac :o war the, p.sepls os fScg- MIalo-x had about run ont of some tn:r- vital, tc, talk about and were ttailirs ts fali ssorts of 84sEcs and sIsnas, ealong witif ia large soncunt of lfsSssip IssEft3ss -ftQ
 i aan, Sims s.as lat church s.-day Hut he says he didn't even s,icw shc was in a mile of there.
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 signed, to the slsth Engineers.
 Camp Fremont, Calif."
 Continuing. the letter further
 says:
 !'sThe united efforts of every patri otic citizen is the great necessity of the hour and, employer and Employee are alike given the opportunity te serve their country and the boys ir the trenches by encouraging eligible men to volunteer. -FsSs- ftot'The duties of the Engineers Corps are so we'll known that it is hardly necessary to quote them fully; but 1T a few words they cover practically every branch of field works, from sapping to tunneling, and from build ing bomb proofs, to railroad. Theil field works save our boys from thu - deadly shrapnel grepades, and gal tho bomb and not least of all, reduces tn, danger from pneumonia and allie t+or scourges of the trench. ''er "The hour has struck, 1918 wilA " ness the completion or wreckfl