Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1915 — CANDIDATES GET A SURPRISE [ARTICLE]

CANDIDATES GET A SURPRISE

See Meteor as They Are Crossing Swamp and Fear End of World Is Coming. Hickory, Miss.—A feW nights ago, as four gentlemen of this place were coming through Chunky swamp, a meteor threw a flash of light as bright as day into their faces and scared them almost as badly, perhaps, as did the mysterious light which surrounded Paul on the road to Damascus. Two of the men who, by the way, are candidates, were in a very dark and lonely part of the swamp, and thought they were about to be held up by highwaymen when the light flashed all around them. Then they saw the meteor falling through the trees not more than, a hundred feet away, apparently. One of the men said he thought the world was coming to an end, while another said perhaps the Germans had his address. The gentlemen who saw the meteor were M. G. Scarborough, P. G. Semmes, W. M. Everett and N. M. Everett