The Holbrook news., 1919-01-24
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elucldatlon when all to onct he puckers up his brows like a girl ,wud in tryin to figure out which dress wud make tn biggest hit with Charlie at th dance. Finally he sez, sezze, ''I'm a readin as how this here Holbrook field has a formashun whats folded into suthin called seeled anticIine, yu're sich a wise guy mabee now yu can tell me what there meens?" Sure" sezzi. 'An femme tell yu Mike. allus cum to me an git the benefit o my eddi- cation fer I'd hate to hay these people know how absolutely plum ignorant yu be. Whut thet meens about the formashun bein a seeled anticIine is thet it's like them apple turnoYers yure mother used ter make, tn apple is the oil, the crust is th form ashun and the risin place in the middle where yu used to sink yure teeth first is the anticline. :" "Yu makes it puffectly clere to me" says Mike when yu talk to me in the pie langwidge -thets sunthin 1 allus understans. :"
 spose yu folks had a sneakin idee that Mike an me wuz a goin out to the field the last week or two, but yu got another think a comin. The trip right now might be all right fer Doc Cook. Commodore Perry, Steffenson or Tom McCaulsy. but not fer we uns. Say, Eye had a hard time to git fur enuf away frum the stove to run fer me hot cakes an coffee an as fer Mike Most o tn time hes buried under a mess O blankets. that in the words of ''Dere Mable.' he has to put a book mark between em to find tn place where he crawls in. But I onderstans this cold spell IS onusual. Comin recent like from dere old CaIifornle thet re; mark sounds sum natural. Yu kno oyer there they says it's on- usual when it rains too much; when it's too dry it's onusual; when it's cold it's very onusual and when it's hot it's surely on usual. Still 1 aint a trying none to class this present onusual stuff with the other fer enuf o tn old timers hay showed me statoos- tics enut to prove thet this cold spell is sure onusual an I'm sure glad it don't last long in this neck o tn wooqs.
 I almost forgot to tell you the joke on Mike. Last week he reeds in The News thet our old friend Charles E. Major is a comin back to Holbrook to in- spect some particular part 0 tn field fer sum Moo York guys, and Mike. wantin to be mixed up in everythin thet occars in this here field frum the time he cums, goes down an wires Major thet he can count on him (Mike) to carry hls instruments. Mir. Major wires back I've already got one burro-that's enough" But 1 betcha aint missin tn point | none, the reel assay o the above paragraff, thot more Moo York | capitalists heye tin impressed | with tn endorsement of this field |
  to try an horn in if the | ehanct offers right. They knows Major hez alredy endorsed the field and the land being mostly took. maby they is gsin to try an find sum spot where it kinda spreads an aint yit bin located. Anyways this shows thet the in crest is still a bangin along an Pm a tellin yu thet when spring ,pens up right there's goin to be m awful mess O activity centered fight hereabouts.
 The people here knows it and hey have bin busy formIn a 3ooru of Oils an rules an regu- ashuns. they aint goin to be aught nappin none at all. Theys ormin a Chamber Commerce %. an altogether shows they is progressive an on their toes with he reealizashun of what tn de- elopment of this field meens.
 An the faith these people have } responsible fer the hardest , q T. l