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...threw a rock and it bounced off'n him like rubber," said Orville. "If somebody gets ate up I reckon you'll believe it." But a few days later the Johnson children were ordered back to school, this time by a skeptical county judge...
...last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...
Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...
...talk about Ernie. They found the News's 31-year-old Owner-Editor Luther B. Mathes telling how he had suggested a Pyle column for weeklies, how his idea has finally been taken up. The column was costing Editor Mathes about $1 a week, but he could reckon it a dollar well spent as he listened to his neighbors...
...partly deaf, on the mend after a hip-fracturing fall. With him lives Ernie's 78-year-old Aunt Mary Bales, sister of his late mother. Editor Mathes looked in last week to see what they thought of the weekly column. Father Pyle's verdict: "Fine, I reckon the visitors can clip it." He referred to the fact that motorists are always dropping in to say how they enjoy Ernest (he is never "Ernie" at his old home). Father Pyle keeps a scrapbook of the daily columns from the Danville, Ill. Commercial-News; Aunt Mary clips hers from...