Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-03-14

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pretty easy about the matter. as he
does not know the attitude Of the new
board in the last election by a good
majority. The Wild Onion teacher was
very popular with the old board but
that does not help him any with the
where he stands. Another thing that
causes him to be bit uncertain is the
fact that Cape Allsop, who is a sort of
teacher and has in the past taught up
ed here. and he fears there has been
some kind of understanding between
the new board and Cape. However,
the Wild Onion teacher will be friendly
to the new board until he sees what is
on tap" ABB
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Hoswallow to Ticl1ville Railroad
Company last night it was decided that
way would agree to furnish wood free
and already cut the road would have
to quit business. The day before the
train came in and brought only roll
and Raj Barlow with a quart of moon
shine liquor as passengers. This kind
of business will not Justify any ex-
pensive operations and the wood to
free and already cut if this enterprise
is kept going.
Atlas Peck at the postoffice yester-
day came across with the first snake
ed the biggest chicken snake he ever
saw. He took corn knife and cut
the snake in two and took the reptile
by the tail and shook out five whole
which his wife had been using as
nest egg, and three two-day old chicks.
The crowd took in the egg and chicken
part and the size Of the snake all right,
h11f fInyy -o1 cfI o+ l.
the door knob part Of the story. Atlas
had the white door knob in his pocket,
but it did not seem to help matters
any yie ea;tor ~ tho r;o,,n;,,o r,a,ra.
announces in conspicuous place in his
columns this week that it takes money
to run newspaper and that. if some
does not come in pretty soon he will
have to shut the paper down, until some
does come in.
Little Fidity Flinders has been plac-
ed in the moonshine still house on Mus
ket Ridge as an apprentice. The pro-
old, and Sim Flinders, the boys faith
er, realizing the necessity of an insti-
tuition Of this character in the new era
of prohibition, willingly gave a son to
| much for man of skill in this line,
operating in this community His first
lessons consist OF watching for strang-
ers who could have no legitimate eX-
It is thought the Dog Hill preacher
must have preached a good gospel SER
mon last Sunday, as Ellick Hellwanger
who was there got pretty badly Trough
ed up" over it.
The Widow Of the Calf Ribs neigh
borhood wore her new spring hat to
church Sunday and Sunday afternoon a
nei ghborhood conference Of the Hogwal.
low women was held at the home of
Miss Fruzie Allsop. It is thought the
new hat had something to do with the
conference, or the conference had some
thing to do with the new hat.
! The Hogwallow Improvement Society
!; let Poke Eazley off on his hair cut on
! the strength Of the March headache ar
gument, but they saw that his yellow
mule was sheared, headache or no head.
ache.
The Postmaster has heard nothing
from the Postmaster General concern
ing the stray hog which is sleeping I'M
der the postoffice and says he guesses
they aim to let it continue sleeping
| there all this summer.
The Postmaster has put up sign in
] the house, emo Smoking Allowed.' If
he means it it will mean the disbandine
Of the Hogwallow Loafers' Club until
| he takes it down.
Little Fidity Flinders who has begun
serving an apprenticeship at the moon
shine still on Musket Ridge, fell into a
barrel Of the famous Moonlight Rec
whisky yesterday and had a narrow es
cape from drowning. He is all right
today, except that the whisky took al
the skin off Of him.
| The Old Miser is down with the i11fu
enza. He has hired one of the Allison
boys to cook for him. The boy says the
Old Miser makes him whistle all the
time he is not in his sight so that he
will know he is not eating anything.
Raj Barlow will be tried next week
on charge of breach Of the peace fol
killing a man and throwing his body
into Gimlet Creek He will probably
be cleared as he has been given plenty
Of time to pick the jury and get ready
for trial.
Plans for the dog fair at Tickville
this month are rapidly taking shape and
lobe Moseley has offered to let the
committee take picture of his fine
bull dog to be used on the bills to ad
vertise the fair.
| Miss Flute Belcher's new hat has
arrived from Chicago and it has SO
many shapes that she has accused the
Postmaster Of having stepped on it.
The Postmaster admitted that it looked
like it had been stepped on but said
most of the ladies' hats he had seen
lately looked that way.
The Tin Peddler has decided that un.
less new road is opened so that he
can miss the Hog Ford still house, he
will have to cut Hogwallow off his list.
REINSTATEMENT OF CIVH-SER
VICE MEN OF ARMY OR NAVY
Washington, D. c., February ~, 1919