KOBVILLE - 3 Aug l9??

PETTICORD, CARTWRIGHT, SNYDER, DUFFIELD, CHANEY, MCCULLOUGH, SCOTT, REDMAN, GREEN, HENRY, STANSBERRY, FROST, CARRITHERS, BUNCH, PERKINS, WINTER, LUCE, GRAHAM

Posted By: B.J. Whitsitt (email)
Date: 1/13/2002 at 21:16:01

Kobville

Aug.3........GLEN PETTICORD passed
through here Monday in company
with a real nice looking young lady, which
proved to be none other than
MISS
DARLENE CARTWRIGHT who was going to spend
the week at the Phil Hughes
home.

WM. SNYDER was on the sick list Tuesday,
but was some better after
the timothy had been shocked.

CLEO DUFFIELD had the misfortune to fall
asleep and lose his
position on a loval harvesting crew the first
of the week. However the
only injury was
to his feelings.

MISS RETA CHANEY visited with MELBA MC
CULLOUGH Tuesday afternoon
and they in turn called on MISS LILLIAN
SCOTT.

BERT REDMAN was a Wednesday business
visitor in Kobville.

MISS RETA CHANEY called on MRS. LOUISE
DUFFIELD Wednesday.

LEO DUFFIELD and family were shopping at
Garden Grove Wednesday.

STEVE MC CULLOUGH was a Thrusday caller
at this office.

GEORGE GREEN had the misfortune to break
the bones of one of his
fingers Wednesday evening while assisting
with the loading of some
calves. He
was immediately taken to Garden Grove, where
DR. COONTZ reduced the
fracture and the injury is mending nicely.

CHANEY and son assisted Uncle Dudley
with his hay Thursday.

Two other near accidents occurred the
past week, one on Wednesday
when a porker in some manner became entangled
in the trip rope of a hay
fork
which LEO DUFFIELD was operating causing the
load to be returned to the
wagon, missing the operator only a few feet;
and on Thursday LOYAL
CHANEY had just completed stacking some hay
and had just gotten off the
stack and stepped a few feet away when the
top slid off the stack,
burying
about half the length of a twenty foot ladder
in the avalanche, which
ladder had been left standing at the end of
the stack.

GEORGE GREEN was in town last Thursday
after binder twine, getting
some at one of the local shops.

Uncle Dudley and PETE CHANEY were in
Leon Friday evening.

Again Kobville steps out and claims the
distinction of winning
first place, this time in regard to the new
law requiring fiVe days
notice prior to the
issuing of a marriage license, as you already
know our own GUY SCOTT and
MISS EDNA HENRY were married the last of the
week and departed
immediately for a honeymoon trip to Chicago
and Minneapolis as well as
other points of interest in Minnesota, this
being the first couple who
has filed
application since the new law went into
effect. Naturally (speaking as
a city) we feel a decided degree of pride in
the event and as a result
are enabled
to add another trophy to our already long
string of laurels, but must
not overlook the fact that congratulations
are in order, not alone from
the
standpoint of being first to claim the honor,
but doubly so because of
the consummation of so beautiful a romance.
We have known the groom
since
childhood and the least we can say is that if
all our friends were as
dependable as GUY, we would have little or no
worry on that score, and
while we
have not known the bride quite so long a
time, nevertheless we are
positive that GUY has chosen wisely. The
bride is the daughter of MR.
and MRS.
HARRY HENRY, while the groom is a son of MR.
and MRS. G.F. SCOTT, and
thus again have members of two of our best
families been joined
together.
Their many friends anticipate for them a very
pleasant honeymoon, and
will await anxiously their return, in the
meanwhile keeping those
cowbells in
tune, for believe it or not, it will most
likely be a real serenade.

FRED STANSBERRY and family of Nebraska
arrived Thursday evening for
a visit with relatives in this county.

"RED" CHANEY is nursing a pretty sore
toe, the result of stumbling
over a cow.

RALPH FROST had important business in
this locality Saturday
morning.

CHARLES CARRITHERS called at the CHARLES
PEUGH home Saturday.

S.E. MC CULLOUGH and R. C. CHANEY
threshed Friday. GREEN BROTHERS
did the threshing.

Relative to the merger we mentioned last
week one of the parties
concerned informs us that it requires capital
to merge. However by
again referring
to our dictionary we find the following
definition: The placing of the
operations of two or more competing interests
under the control of a
single body.
So we still continue the argument for the
prosecution. We understand a
merger requires capital, but believe it
possible to merge, without.

We also have it from good authority that
WM. SNYDER has taken over
the interests of JAMES BUNCH and arrangements
are pending relative to a
long time lease on the property.

Yes, "Tattler" although we are only what
some people might call a
one-horse farmer, nevertheless we anticipate
feeding a few hogs, and by
the way
we are unable to recall better prospects for
corn than this year, that
is provided stalks and shoots count for
anything. Still we believe the
continued dry
weather has reduced the yield slightly, but
hardly enough to be
noticeable, and with the recent rains about
all we have to fear now is a
hail,
grasshoppers and strong winds, for as tall as
the corn is the wind could
sure tangle it up, and if it stands, much of
it will be above average
reach.

My sympathy to friend ASH concerning
signs, but really we do not
believe such signs are placed at random, or
to stimulate the use of
materials used
in construction, but we do believe that
wherever at all possible the
lettering should be placed conspicuously on
the pavement directly in the
path of
motor vehicles, for the simple reason that
motorists have enough to
watch without reading all the signs placed at
the roadside. Then too,
electric signs
placed in the middle of the street at
intersections are very convenient
and desirable, provided the lense are kept in
proper condition, as well
as the
lighting equipment, but which we mean to
infer that city officials
sometimes get careless as well as car
drivers, also traffic regulations
should apply to
pedestrians as well as others. For example
only recently we were
turning off a main thoroughfare and had
sounded a warning signal at an
oncoming
pedestrian who deliberately turned his head
in the opposite direction
and proceeded on his way. Luckily however
brakes happened to respond
and thus
we averted a possible visit to the same
office, or even perhaps worse,
but of course pedestrians do not carry number
plates, so about all we
could do
was wonder to ourselves just how much of the
street the fellow really
owned.

Recently it has come to our attention,
and we consider it
noteworthy, to mention the fact just now, of
the percentage of people in
some towns on
certain occasions who walk to and from
supper, and so far have three
suggestions offered as the correct solution
of the problem, conserving
gasoline,
lack of confidence in ability to observe
traffic signals, and the
possible assurance of a conveniently located
and comfortable seat during
the progress of
the entertainment. What say, FLOYD? (Sure.)

Ye itemizer and party motored to ED
VARNEY's town Saturday
afternoon where we found our friend A.
PERKINS enjoying an old fashioned
cloudburst.
They also had a nice rain Friday night in the
same locality, scientists
claim as a rule heavy rains invariably follow
some stream. If this be
true our friend
A is conveniently located having all the
advantages offered by both
Weldon River and Steele Creek.

CLEO DUFFIELD returned to his home at
Lineville Saturday, and his
brother DALE is at present enjoying a week's
visit in Kobville.

WINTER BROTHERS were calling at the
CHANEY home Sunday.

We regret to learn of the passing of
MRS. S. J. SCOTT and extend
sympathy to the sorrowing relatives.

While in Lineville Saturday evening we
enjoyed a nice visit with
our friend IRA LUCE, whom we found looking
well and enjoying a good
business. IRA
was raised on a farm not far removed from
Kobville, and is merely
another of our boys who has gone out and made
good.

All correspondents will quite likely
find something of interest
elsewhere in this issue, and again we urge
your to respond.

A regular feature: HALLEY CHANEY spent
Sunday with home folks.

"BUTCH" GRAHAM is nursing a few minor
scratches, the result of a
friendly bout with W.K. SMITH. Truly boys
will be boys.

Some people may think we have quite a
variety of nicknames for
people, but gee, over at Lineville they have
a fellow they call "Flat
Tire" and
apparently get by with it.

The road south of town was temporarily
blocked one day the past
week due to the fact that HALLEY CHANEY upset
a load of bundles in its
midst.

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