Thursday, Aug. 27,1936
I NOBODY'S i
I BUSINESS 1
$ BY GEE McCEE %
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM FLAT
ROCK
well mr edditor?it looks like
cverthing is normal now except the
republicans and the townsend-ites.
bizners is satisfactory, the farmers
are making a livving. relief to the
able-boddied is practically nothing,
and the goose is hanging high.
it sounds like mr roseyvelt for anther
term, but the g. o. p. workers
are hard at work. mr. landon's cxceptance
speech was a most remarkable
dockerment. and would of gone
fine in the fifth grade, but he read it
it-iout mu h trubble and got a few |
on'urcs from his audience ansoforth. i
our local politics are very warm.
,i'. up to the pressent riting, no blood :
, been shed, but some mud hajui
slung, the county and state |
. andy-dates are the smartest and |
m intelligent that ever offered
ir services to the public according |
? their own statements.
holsum moore wants the dimmerrats
to put a plank in their platform
<?ffsot the townsend bunk, he
'links that if they would offer every*
tuldy over 35 years of age a half
interest in a rainbow or fourth inter?
-t in the moon, payable semi-annual- .
iy. that it would take fine with the
ass who thinks the townsend plan
tVasablc.
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. v?. vuuKiuin is not creating verry I
much interest in our midst, if he was <
a baptist instead of a catholic, ho j
would be a verrv heavy weight. hi? 1
efforts is leaning towards nothing
for noboddy and something for ever- |
boddy. he is a cross betwixt lenike
and hitler and al. smith, if he do not
amount to anny more in his preaching
than he do in h is pollitics, he mought
as well resign, so art square says.
the weather is fine for campaigners
it rained last week at 4 o'clock,
and all the farmers have turned their
crops over to their wives and children?,
and are either fishing or listening
at the rampants of the politicians
as they go hither and yon to
prove their qualifications, very fewjobs
have benn promised to the voters
in our community*.
there is no further news in flat
<?ok at this time, john simkins who
thought he hail the infanteel parallsis
has recovered from a widder spider
bite on bis caff and is back at his
reggular loafering place in front of
the drug stoar. the spider died, appetites
and complexions are all normal,
so says dr. hubbert green, our
local fissican.
THE DOCTOR SAID, "TAKE IT
EASY, OLD MAN"
Due to high blood pressure, ow j
ash reserves, hot weather, rotten
iitics and dull business my doctor,
ifrer counting my pulse, looked at
my tongue, and charging me $4, preiribed
that I take a -hort nap at the
lunch-hour, which is our dinner time.
I took my first dose of this prescription
yesterday on the sofa-settee
in the rear sitting-room. 1 got
an electric fan a-going, fixed 2 pillows
under my head, removed both
r.oes and 1 sock, took a long breath. |
and set-out to go to sleep as directed, j
. I
T had just about dozed oft* when
meboddy called me to the telephone ,
to say that they wanted to see m j
the office at once to go: me t<? en- j
- r>c a note for him to buy 2 barr? - !
?>;* flour from the other fellow. A:":'
ng him T would not he back in *
office for 3 weeks, I returned * n:y i
iet'i>ing rendezvoii .
1 ot a newspaper, read a few
' about the Townscnd platform,
and was nearly asleep again when the
aby's big rubber ball strv k
'.gilt: betwixt the eyes. I fell off the
< < " in my excitement and landed
of his toy trucks which entered '
'y anatomy near my hort rib . j
1 < r shooing him and 2 flies out of
he room, 1 began all over a-new.
! hat boy will be a great beset a!i
"her someday.)
1 t'unk I had possibly slept 4 or
> winks when my newspaper got
angled up in the ciectric fan ami
s ared me put nigh to death. Hut I
relieve in my doctor ar.d tried it again.
Everything seemed to be coming
my way as I gradually sank into
The Che
Townsendites Ready
To Try Out Strength
San Francisco, A up. 27.?The
Townsend pension organization made
ready Sunday night for a preliminary
strength test in its home state by
urpinp members to vote for 20 selected
candidates in next Tuesday's congressional
primary.
The political fortunes of at lead
one high Townsendite official. Slieri<iar.
Downey were at stake.
Downey now attorney for Dr. I".
E. Townsend pension plan founder,
soupht to defeat Representative
Frank H. Ruck for the third district
democratic nomination. Ruck has
beer singled out by the Townsendite.*
as particularly hostile to their plar.
Representative John Steven M Groarty,
who introduced the oripinal
Townsend pension bill in conpress
but who later broke with Townsend,
wa- seeking democratic rcnomination
in the 11th district. Amon? tho republican
candidates was A. T. Stewart
Townsendite choice.
State Manaper E. T. Marpett,
whose name fipured sensationally in
the congressional Townser.d inquiry,
predicted 13 of the 20 in.hres woubi
be nominated -seven out of ten in
northern California ami >ix out of the
declined to mention names.
A stranger helped R. L. Clark . of
Portland, ( )re.. to recover trav* les s*
checks worth ?130 which a thief
stole from him. Then the stranger.
Clark told police, won the money
from him in a coin-matching gatiie.
unconsciousness. Rut suddenly something
ran across my face with 8 or
10 sharp feet, starter! up my nose
and wound up entering my left ear.
That was a roach, of course, out for
a hole to crawl in.
1 continued to have poor luck.
Somebody rang the door-bell wanted
lo sell some snap beans at 10 cents
a pound. The old lady tiptoed in to
get her knitting sack and knocked
my typewriter case over and it fell
on my poor head. I got up threw
the pillows out the window kicked
over 2 chairs jerked the electric fan
c ord loose from the wall cussed 2 or
3 times, and lit out in high for my
only quiet resting place, viz: my private
office . . . which is always open
to everyboddy, especially girls selling
magazines to go thru college on.
drummers, and folks who got burnt
out last week, lost everything,
yores trulic,
mike Clark, rfd,
corry -pondent.
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Man Asks Ten Days
To Evade Drink Offers '
Atlanta, Ga.. A up. 27.?The man's j
expressnn bespoke consummate des-<
pair as he approached the informs- j
tion counter at police headquarters
Saturday afternoon.
I "What can we do for you? * ask- i
j ed Officer J. E. (Ray O'SunshineV I
i Ivie, the clerk on duty, ir. his best
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convenience, there is no hi
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people get employment, v
Many additional millions oi
supplies, and into taxes v
highways, and your federal
So you sec, the L & N,
community?a paying ass<
treatment from our lawuiu
neighbor's home to have.
We hope you'll think
that way. And when you
your "Home Sweet Homi
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"I'm drunk and I wanna be lock- *
ed up."' said the visitor.
"Oh, you're not that drunk? go
home and get some sleep and you'll f
feel better tomorrow maybe," sug- v
gested the clerk hopefully. i h
The visitor, however. was not to s
be denied. "That's just the trouble."
he insisted, "wherever I go and a
whatever 1 do there's always some
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el low offering me a drink. I want
r? get away from it all-?at least for
0 days."
Whereupon Officer Ivie grave in.
le >ummonc(i a guard and the man
. as hooked. The blotter revealed
e was Rosco* Gir.rt. of High
:hoal-. Ga.
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