Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — A Rapidly Drying Country. [ARTICLE]

A Rapidly Drying Country.

“I don’t know what’s to become o’ the oP man es they keep on votin’ the States dry,” said the old lady. “It didn’t cost so much fer him to go to Chattynoogy, but as Tennessee will be as dry as a bone in July, chat’ll take him a step further, an’ he jest can’t afford the money If course, he kin blind tiger it to Georgia, but it’s no longer safe for him to do so, seein’ that he kin no more kiver up hb tracks, fer ever time he tries it they ketch up with him an’ haul him up before meetin’, an’ he’s get tin’ too oT now ter risk bein’ turned out the church, fer satan might ketch him on the outside an’ sweep him off ’forq he has a chance to git back -gin. But the States are dryin* up ono after an other, an’ I kin see him up buyin’ a railroad ticket as fur Os Kalamazoo—an’ I believe that country would be dry ’fore he hit it!”—Atlanta Constitution. ~ ~