The Pulaskian., 1919-06-06
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TWO DAYS TT DID NOT RAIN.
I've been in Little Rock over two
weeks.
Well not exactly in Little Rock all
the time. Part of the time | was in
the penitentiary and part of the time
/ was in Memphis, Tenn. | add
Tennessee for fear some people
might think | meant just some Little
Rock suburb and because there is a
Memphis, Tex, which is county
site and thinks itself some town too.
During the time can only remember
two days it did not rain on me. One
of those days was last Friday and
the other was Sunday. Sunday | was
awful hot and sweating copiously
from the large amount of mineral
water / drank from P. E. Lockert's
we'll, near Zion Hill. By the way
Clarence Lockert gave me couple of
Indian arrow heads. After long walk
from there | struck the road from
Holly Springs to Fletcher Springs
and took on some real spring water,
sweated some more and came to a
vacant house with nice clean
porch where | lay down to cool off
which I did and slept little also. /
awoke, resumed my journey and in
less than quarter of mile | walked
into a place where a good rain fell
while | slept So / have to give that
little nap credit for doubling my
rainless days for the past 15 days. /
appreciate that for it was Sunday the
first day of the week and the first
day of June. You see | got an awful
scare Saturday. | went to look at my
horse shoe to renew my battery of
enthusiasm and energy and it was
gone. Some miscreant had read my
description of it in last weeks
Pulaslzian and slipt into the Pulaskian
Office and stole it. | had saved ten
dollars to pay my hotel bill for the
week and buy my ticket home with.
So after supper / settled up and after
paying for my room and laundry /
only got back fifty cents, while my
railroad fare home would have been
$1.38. 1t was too late in the day for
me to rustic more cash so / went to
bed, got up Sunday morning, drank
cup of hot coffee and hit the Hot
Springs pike for hike. Soon after
got off the street DR.. C. F. Riechart
came along and gave me ride.
told him where | wanted to go and
he said he could put me down at
cross road that would only be mile
and half from my objective. But
when got tired and took that nap /
had already walked twelve miles. The
doctor just made a mistake, but the
day before / mailed him a dun for his
subscription which he should get
Monday, and | will bet, then, he
wished he had carried me away over
into Saline county.
Well it was all right anyway for
when / started to leave Lockert's
Mrs. Lockert called me back and gave
me three dollars on subscription to
the Pulaskian and thanked me very
much for waiting so patiently for the
pay.
| learned from Mr.. Lockert that
some of his wheat was already too
ripe and should have been cut. / saw
oats which We're ready to cut and |
am very glad they had a nice day
Sunday with sunshine instead of rain,
which fell to the lot of the Ferndale
people.
Corn is looking nice on some of
these rock hills near Ferndale If
they can just get enough rain they
sure win make some corn. Fruit you
never saw the like of it. Dewberries
are ripe so are cherries. Mrs. j. J.
White had the only cherries l saw and
they certainly are pretty.
Mr.. Dodge picked me up near
Pritchards mill and carried me to
the Fletcher Spring road He said