Word: stirrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afore you was dry behind the ears I'd been stirrin apple butter nigh unto forty years. You aint got no call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write...
Meanwhile if you'll sort of appint me as vice president of the Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer the Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days I'll se what we kin do in Green Valley to help on the Perpetuatin. I got another nephew up at Cherry Hill mebbe you never heerd of, names Henry O'Hope. I rember one time when Henry was a little kodger his ma and him come over to make us a visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back...
...thet ain't named George or Fanny-I got a ideer I'd like ter form a organization of former apple butter stirrers. It would be called the "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpet-uatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days...
Ennyway, if they's enny TIME readers thet want ter join my "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Per The Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days" jest tell 'em ter write me at No. 318 S. State Street, Marion, Ohio, and I'll see thet they get the proper identifyin kredentials-without spendin a penny or agreein ter nothin...
...Back in 1896 Colonel Green walked into a Republican State Committee meeting at Terrell and announced he wanted to be a delegate to the national convention. Hetty Green had told him to get some publicity. The convention told him nothin' stirrin' . . . but the people of the town put on the pressure. ... I told Colonel Green it would 'take 75' to cover expenses for the delegate he replaced. He handed me a check for $7,500. I had to explain I only needed...