The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-08
STRAY STREAKs
tBy Fluke McFluke.)

Goodbye. otherwise known as J. l..
Goodman, author of the codicil to
one Of our streaks of two weeks ago.
is barely. noticed and never spoken to
at all by a lot of ladies nowadays.
Charlie, who had once lived in Aus
tria, but who had been on a long So
journ in Switzerland and recently
visited some of the home folks in
Steinamanger, left Tuesday for Switz-
erland, where he will do some more
sojourning.
This bright oozy weather is Just
about to get our mamie. If it don't
rain that wife of ours is going to put
us in her garden and IL IL does rain
it will spoil some good fishing. Guess
the best thing we can do is to hope
for continued fair weather and take
pot shot on beating the garden
stuff.
Mrs. and Mr.. A. d. Kirk planted
garden Wednesday. Mrs. Kirk, so
Mr.. Kirk says, planted Blue bells,
touch-me-nots and red pepper, fix
ing to make it hot for Arthur, you
might say. oh yes, we nearly forgot
to say that Arthur did the peas,
taters raddishes, onions, corn and
let us.
If there's man in these parts who
has a used house boat, motor boat,
or even a common joe boat they wish
to be rid of they should see Pirtle &
Tinsley, they need not, however, take
the time or trouble to look them up, |
except they have something to un-
load that needs lot of work done on
it in order to make it disable.
We read in a paper tie other day |
that a man who had been asleep nine
weeks was cured by the use of -
That's where we took nap) whisky.
We are going to be about seventy-fve
times harder than ever to get up of
mornings and we hope some good
friend of ours tells our wife about the
liquor remedy.
So
OH fpfn I'D 70 do 70 60
or, ]. d. Taylor, of the Rob Roy
country, was in our office Wednesday
md Henry Leach, who happened to
De loafing here too, asked jim how
he was gettin on farming and j. D.
'eplied: ooh, pretty we'll, 1 guess,
IN figuring on picking out my corn
ground next week"
It's getting nigh on that time
,'year when John Moore of louie
lille, will be a packing his bags,
oading his barque and heading for
irassy and all way points. Doc Pr
les temperture passed the danger
Joint this week and Ed has had Miss
save him a bushel and a half
# fishin worms she found while
in their garden at different
ines. Gee! we are wishing that the ]
irst or second week in May could :
e about a month long. :
go .
Rev. r. E. Fuqua, City, and Rev. l
I. NJ. Mcfarland, of Louisville, went Y
D Pond Run last Saturday to con- v
uct services there Saturday night [
nd Sunday. When they alignted Z
rom the train at Echols Saturday, a
arson Fuqua discovered Ed Ashby {
urchasing Is or 20 pounds of nice, Il
'esh fish. The Preacher Fuqua took I
Is friend and went home with Ashby,
here they remained until Sunday af- ]
,rnoon, or until the fish had all dis
ppeared, I'VE mean the Preachers
ere at Mr.. Ashby's at each meal
me-" p
-,--- So <--~ri.
We went fishing the other night, il
nd we "shore" had some luck. We f.
ooked big one. and after strug- X
ling for quite a long spell pulled F
i'm in close enough to get one hand C
n it, in a death-like grip, then the f
truggle began in earnest and we feel h
hat the only thing that prevented
vi landing the monster fish was due 4
0 the fact that our wife kicked us in S
he face some three or four times Z
nth the other free. foot, and while I
Ye didn't see any moon, stars passed v
hick and fast before our vision. not +
the blinds were all
losely drawn.
If /. d. Claire should come to town
ow he would hardly know the old o
lace. The vacant lots across the
treet from our office have been v
leaned up, plowed and seeded to