Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-11-05

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Looked to me like everybody in the
state was there with his wife, or may
be somebody's else's; anyhow there
was sight: Of folks there. Lester
Miller sed it looked to him like New
York on salesday. q don't know as
Testers been to New York, but
knows he was onct to Arthurs and
knows what a crowd is like.) And lot
on dust and onions. got a good
mind never to plant another onion.
I can smell 'em yet. Thursday night
I dreamed had been condemned to
death, and instead Of being hanged
they were going to shet me up in a
tight room and turn the smell of all
them fair week onions in on me until
the end If it hada really happened
the end woulda been short, sure
enough.-Speakin' about onions I
don't know where some folks smellers
kin be cause the last seed of Jack
Carroll and Doc Sawyer they was
huntin' a place to eat, as If they,
didn't have no nose to point the way.
But the onions was only bad
spot in a good show. seed a heap
of thinks that was as good to look at
as the onions was bad to smell, and
the very fust thing I saw. that made
me feel good, was the Oak Grove ex-
hibit. It sure was put in good place.
for folks to see, right at the fust end
Of the big building where a blind man
would stump; his toe over it. And it
give old Lexington a mighty good
place in the picture. I heard a lot
o. folks talking about it, and some
of 'em said it made EN- mighty
hungry to look at them good old hams
and sides o. meat hanging up there,
and the good looking cakes and rolls
and bread and so forth in the show
case. 1t just made us Lexington folks
swell up like .aapouter pigeon to hear
the good things; folks was saying
about it. I only wished that Char
ter Oak had a; been long side it too,
I think everybody would >er wanted to
move to Lexington right away. 1.>~.
Further on in this same building I
seen a crowd er folks round a place
like a gum er bees swarming, and I
thought to myself it must be big
show going on there, but when axeu
Joe Caughman, who was just pushing
out the crowd, what was the excite
ment, he sed it was two good looking
girls giving away coffee. And Joe
said it sure was good. guess maybe
it was the good looking girls that was
a-giving it away that TUX Joe's eye.
But anyhow if you want to- get
crowd just start to giving something
away, thinks I, and you'll have a lot
to the automobile room, thinking
maybe they'd. be advertising them
buggies the same: way, but nary a
automobile did see handed out-and
there warn't near the crowd there
either. I got disgusted and went out
behind the big; building, where there
was a feller who sed he was Hindoo
telling fortunes: I thought the thing
was free, just to amuse the crowd, so
I thought I'd help things along and
have my fortune told::-~But come to
find out the feller charged ten cents.
4 SO backed out, cause don't believe
in being extra3agant, but while was
watching the heather gobble up the
dimes who should walk up but
w. E. Humphries, (most everybody
calls him "Hump.'') which is selling
automobiles in town. Hump" muster
been feeling kinder reckless like,
cause he dished out a dime, sorter
careless like, Just like he. was cutting
= OIL Ills TlSuI dill W SolllSI1tiLS easy,
and tells the guy to- tell him how
long he would live. So. Hump"
writ his name on a piece OF paper
and handed tito the Hindoo, which
same put the paper in a glass bottle
with both ends open at the middle and
in a minute or two took it out with
his fortune writ all over it, including
a picture of his hand with his life
lines all crisscress in it. I don't know
what it said, cause Hump" wouldn't
let nobody look at it, but it muster
been good. cause, he went off smiling
and took a. chance on blanket which
a feller was running wheel of for
tune for. I spec the fortune muster
sed that if generosity didn't kill him