The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11

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- his intentions AM
sccin' that he wa
u pounds bigger than l was l re
Piled. NO. sir, not very wcll--fact i
no one knows him very well. He j.
a quiet sort OF cuss-of a retirin
disposition like an lndiar
in that he ScVcr iorgives a wrong o.
an injury and never forgcts kind
ness. Mia, do you want to see him
about" asked, Why" said he. 81
just wanted 20 tell him that some ol
his writings arc awful simple and the
rest OF 'esn simply awful. Taken as a
whole they are rotten and yet-wcll
we want Sanheams and we miss him
when he fails to show up in The
Times" Very WE'LL" says /, "I'll tell
him par. OF what you have said. l
wouldn't risk ,cllin' him ALL and SO
we parted and he don't know till
plumb yet ,Aa, he was talkin' to the
notorious Sammy Jim,
MIR Hoover wants us TO use COM
mon sense IN our conscrvation-Wcll,
by golly, that's the first thing we did
at our houSe--si we hadn't | can't say
what the rcS@lts would have been for
tha, seems 10 be about the only thing
we could sssc without provin' an alibi.
Out weS. where was one time, two
chaps who were partners had trouble
over claim and when the smoke
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be Interested in any earthly claim
We buried han and his partner
marked the grave with board. He
wanted pse to write something for
him on the board, something nicc--so
l wrote and signed his name to it,
This was IL
He said he'd abide here
AS long As he pleased
But he didn't he died here
And l'm-his disease.
% United We stand. Divided-well.
something unpleasant is quite likely
to happen,
What shall it profit a man if he
gain the whole world (with a fence
around il and lose his appetite for
corn bread.
don't know what sort of cold
drinks Adam aud Eve had during the
hot. dry months, but they shore had
the best OF us in cool clothes.
When speaking OF men who have
been fightin' We say he fought. But
let two women get into an argument
about the latest fad in corsets and
they will tell you they fit
Every time l see woman Tor a
mani riding around with a dog for
a seat mate l just can't help feelin'
sorry for the dog,
read in a paper that we eat too
much meat, Now, the chap who
wrote that may be eatin' too much
meat. He says (well never mind
what else he says) but il he will come
md eat at our house for a week, III
him that he don't know
what he's talkin' about. Too much
neat! The poor simp-why we have
lot eaten Is much meat in the last
hree months rs a Hummin' Bird
would eat at one mcal-and . Hum
min Bird don't eat meat.
We are told it more blessed to give
han to reeeive.-Well. maybe it's.
NJ have got to remark on the SUBJ
ect Is that l am perfectly willin' to
id to the pleasure Of folks who feel
hat way about Il by bein' appointed
receiver.
Which do you prefer-the old days
nd old ways or the new-Spealing
o. myself. I sort Of banker for the I
M-fos the days Of the pioneers- I
ays when the circuit rider preacher ,
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