Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — WERE NOT TAKING CHANCES [ARTICLE]

WERE NOT TAKING CHANCES

Citizens of Petunia Had a Reason for Avoiding Anything That Looked Like Trouble. “What’s the matter with the folks in thia town, anyhowT” demanded old Lab Snuckles, drawing rein In front of the blacksmith shop In Petunia. "Is the white cups around or the grand jury In session, or whut? I rid up to the Right Place store, tied my mule, and started in. I had a switch in my hand, and I sorter larruped my britches with it to get the dust off. as any gent would. The storekeeper was behindthe counter, and the minute I switched my leg he dropped something that smashed on the floor, and lit out of the back door like a bat out of torment. A good deal the same thing happened at a couple of other places. I don’t look like I wanted to kill anybody, do ir “No, I reckon not,” replied the village chestnut, who stood beneath the blacksmith’s spreading tree. ’’But the news was norated around town a spell ago that a grass widder lady, name not given, was on the street some’rs, with a rawhide in her hand, and muttering something about a prominent business man. So you see how it —yaw-w-wn 1 —was.” —Kansas City Star.