Judge — November 14, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Sum PICKENS holds the champion- ship in this section for cracking hick- ory nuts with his teeth. He places the nut in his mouth, puts a large weight on his head, and then pulls right hard against a tree. Fit Smith believes the more a person knows, the more he has the headache. But Poke Eazley says he has been taking the Tickville Tidings for several years and has never had a symptom. Fit Smith The season for yarn socks and sorghum molasses is in the near distance. The pumpkin is about ready to roll out into the corn row and hump its yellow back to catch the early morning frost. It is reported that Dock Hocks is pre- paring to quietly elope with the jailer’s daughter at Tickville. If he succeeds in doing so, it will be the culmination of a romantic courtship, which began when she played ‘‘Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage’’ during his incarceration. Presidential possibilities are beginning to loom up, a young son having been born at the home of Atlas Peck Tuesday night. Several have suggested that the mail carrier enter the slow race at the Tick- ville fair this fall. Lazytown Local News By GEORGE BINGHAM One of the most unimportant items we have announced is the fact that Columbus Allsop rode over to Gander Creek Thurs- day morning and watered his mule. On his way back he stopped at Bounding Bil- lows and lit his pipe, then came on to the post-office and got a postal card that had printing on the back. Miss Fruzie Allsop is in favor of votes for ladies. Yam Sims thinks if she has any- thing to do with the election returns, they will surely be padded. One of the printers at the Tickville Tid- ings office has been laid off, as nothing of importance is now go- Tobe Moseley ing on in the United States at the present time. With the approach of cool weather Tobe Moseley has put an overcoat on the scare- crow in his last summer's watermelon patch, Washington Hocks has quit drinking and joined the church, but will go fishing next week just the same. Wood is getting scarce in the woods along the creek, according to Columbus Allsop. He says he spent Thursday in the Gander Creek woods, which contain thousands of acres, and could hardly cut enough for a load. An owl’s nest has been discovered in the post-offic As these birds do not build their nests in such public places, it is be- lieved that it was built there by Raz Bar- low, who stays out late. Miss Hostetter Hocks, who has dabbled considerably in literature, has several or- ders ahead for obituaries, also for a rec- ommendation for a hair dye. She has become so apt at writing obituaries that she can sit down and write one without knowing anything about the person’s past life. Ellick Hellwanger had a close escape from drowning in Gimlet Creek Tuesday night, when he accidentally rode off of the high bridge. He thinks he was saved only by the fact that there was no water in the stream at the time. Atlas Peck wit- nessed a performance at the opera house at Tickville last Saturday night. Atlas took along a quart of licker with him, and had it aged five years, be- tween the third and fourth acts,