The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-06-25
STRAY STREAKS
(By Fluke McFluke.)

Wy AnhO WV AohOHy
The present price of gasoline is
likely to take the joy out of rid
ing.
Albert Cox says If he ever meets
John Henry Thomas face to face,
when he has his gun with him there
is going to be lot of mangled stuff
for which there is no market.
There are lots of things we don't
profess to understand the whyfore-
ness of, but the greatest puzzle to us
is, why-in-tarnation do telephone
companies keep and pay trouble men
when the patrons have so dadgumed
much of it to contend with, and about
all they get for it is, slinesbizy.
49,
Albert Rial says he is going to
adopt the Piggy Wiggly system in
his popcorn and peanut business. All
he expects to do is to furnish the
rooster, oleomargerine, corn and
peanuts, letting his customers pop
the corn, roast the gooblers, sack
and salt the corn down and he'll do
the same to the jitneys.
A fellow living about three miles
from town whose first and last ini-
tials are Elmer Tinsley, was in Capt.
Whites store enc day this week and
you might say just a bit braggingly
talking about a fine field of corn he
was laying-by that day, when the Ca"-
tain remarked about as follows: Yes
we know all about il. the boys are
doing the blowing and you the laying
by.
We've been running in low gear
this week and somehow the steering
apparatus wont head us onto any sort
of streaks, or maybe our magnetic is
out of fix. The devil lows as how
our carburetor amt functioning and
our spark plug is dead and no juice
goes through besides we have car
bon in our cylinders and we need
not expect to get streaks through a
machine with all of them troubles.
49,
About half dozen fellows have
asked us during the week if fish bit
good Sunday, and how they expect
us to know anything about last
Sundays biting fish when We attend
ed three sessions at church, is mys-
terry we can't fathom. We tell 'em
to go and ask Tommy Bean, Henry
Bean, Ed Barrass, or Howard Ellis.
Now mind you, we don't say any of
these esteemed gentlemen were fish
in Sunday, just cause they were
not at church, but simply refer to
them on account of their superio"
age and consequent ripper judgment.
Believin'' as how an old man would
have a better notion as to how to
tell whether fish bit or didn't, last
Sunday, far better than an experience
ed young fellow could.
In discussing the lesson in Sun
day School last Sabbath, which was
based upon one of the Psalms,
wherein is found the words, "He
leadeth me beside the still waters
and maketh me to lie down in green
pastures, &C., or vice versa, anyhow
the question as to how far ones
faith could or may go toward supply
plying all things needful to human
existence was under fire, when the
teacher, maybe ii was, said, as a
matter of course faith and trust could
not be expected to avert or forestall
death. At this point the brother
nearest to us with half worldly
and / give-up sort of an air, added.
nor the payment of taxes either
Which goes to prove that even when
gathered together for the purpose of
studying the writings of the great
Psalmist, David, the mind of man
runneth in channels contrary and re-
versatile from the straight and mar
row groove.