The Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1943 Page: 7 of 8
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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943
THE CITIZENS JOURNAL, ATLANTA, CASS COUNTY, TEXAS
Aunt Lucindy and Jeems Rainwater
*
a bigr influence with President
and he listens to and does what
they say to do more'n half the
time when he aint listenin to Harry
Hopkins and Leon Henderson and
that feller Lewis.
Can you beat it? Well to be
shore 1 was plum dumfounded at
them remarks so I sez, 'No Gol
durn ye no! You aint goin with
me to Washington and thereby
crum my chance to git a big gov-
ernment job" for I knowed for
fine bulls I figgerd to git when I
started my bull circle.
So whilst me and Kelly was fig-
gering on them plans and me a tell-
ing Kelly to be shore and fix us a
fine big warm barn for them bulls
but not to be so durn partickler
about the house because female wi-
mmen could livin most any sort of
house I sez but fine bulls has to
have awful good care took of em.
Well dog gone if Lucindy didn't
step up jiat as 1 spoke them re-
shore if Lucindy ever did git to marks and got Kelly to figgoring
Washington, Miss Perkins and [all over agin by her tellin Kelly
Mrs. Ellenor Roosevelt might as Hall to build that house to suit her
instid of me and to make it rat j
proof woorm proof and fool proof j
if such a thing could be done, and |
not to stint hisself on lectricity j
well take a back seat and set thar
for the duraton for Lucndy
would shore try to run things.
Yea, and moren likely she'd tie |w, —— „
right in with that feller Hender- j plugs and gas pipes but to put em
son and help him out in his fat j all over the house and build the j
rationing and her and John L. j bath room jining to the bed room,
Lewis would be sich pardners in J instid of on the back porch.
no time and likely as not she'd j Well Kelly he told her to leave it
unseat Harry Hopkins and git the to the Atlanta Lumber and Supply
Pjwt L0CUlW
Invade Cass County to Shop in Atlanta
Uncle Jeems Rainwater Fails to
Keep Promise to Pay Visit and
States Why.
Dear Editor Harrell and also Mrs.
Harrell: *
I know all you folks was tur-
rible disappointed last week when
that ole pestiferous better half
(or maybe she's my wusser half)
of mine. Lucindy Rainwater show-
ed up thar instid of me as per
promise. I reckon you're wonder-
ing how come Lucindy got off to
do her shoppin' instid of me. Well,
it was jest this way— and you,
D. P. Harrell, are mostly to blame
for if you weren't always printin'
them enticing advertisements in
yer paper about the bargains to
be had in them stores gettin' the
women folks all ribbed up to come
right down and partake of them
bargains before they are all sold
out for you know wimmin folks
read every one of them ads in the
•Citizens Journal plumb from the
east corner of the paper to the
southwest corner and don't miss
nothin'; and then powder their
noses and paints their cheeks (and
also their fingernails and mor'n
likely their toe nails); sets their
hats on a sorter slantin' wise wig-
gles into one of them tight dresses
a showin' off their figgers and
then sets out to buy them
bargains as per them advertise-
ments, you know they do.
Yes sir, thet's exactly what them
female wimmens always does, ev-
ery time they read them entesin'
ads in the Citizens Journal, and if
you boys don't be more keerful
'bout printin so many ads in the
paper your're goin' to have every
one of us pore down-trod men folks
busted plum flat, fer Lucindy nev-
er would a think about gittin*
a new dress and some shoes if she
aint seed Alldays Ad in The Cit-
izens Journal a saying as how they
had jest got in a new supply of
womens shoes and some fine ray-
on silk stockings which was going
like hot cakes and also Some new
fall ready to wear dresses if she
aint seed about it in The Citizens
Journal. No sir, and darned as
soon as she read' em enticin' ads
put thar by Bear Allday for no-
thing on earth except to inveegle
the wimmen to come right straight
to Alldays to partake of them bar-
gains before they was all gone,
darned if she didn't rise right up
and begin gittin ready to go to
Atlanta her a saying as how she
needed a new pair of shoes so's to
look more fitten and also a rew
dress so's she'd look more fitten
to git out and make a few bond
selling speeches, yes, sir.
And when she spoke about tak-
ing my no. 18 card out of my su-
gar ration book to git them shoes
with (and me almost barefooted) I
sez well Lucindy I hope you git a
complete pair of shoes and not them
kind without ary heel or toe to
'em for I'd dead shore Alldays
totes in stock a complete stock of
shoes with both toes and heels in
'em and what do you reckon she
remarks to me?
Well sir she sez "Now Jeems
Rainwater when I git to Alldays I'll
let that knowing young shoe fel-
ler at Alldays, Freid Manning tell
me what kind of shoes to git and
not you, and I'll also git Mrs. Min-
nie Earl Jackson or Mrs. Daisy Mc
Clung to tell me what sort of dress
to git which will be suitable for
a body to make bond selling spee-
ches in and also to wear to the
meetin house on Sunday."
No sir, she wouldn't a knowed
about them bargains at Alldays if
she aint read about 'em in The
Citizens Journal.
Neither would she have knowed
about the air electric gadgets which
them blame Utilities sich as the
Southwestern Gas and Electric Co.
nor them Ark.-La. Gas Co's. fine
water heaters which wimmin folks
is now gettin sot up so's to make
us pore downtrod men folks tak a
hot bath several time a week with-
out us a beefin about the water
being to cold to take a bath.
Again I say Lucindy never
would have knowed anything about
them house keeping electricity art-
ickles if she aint seed 'em adver-
tised in the Citizens Journal and
rigged herself up and driv into At-
latnta and bought all them gadgets
as soon as we got moved into our
new bungaloo right here on the
fur edge of Atlanta several years
ago when we struck and immigrat-
ed over here to Cass County and
she's still doing sich capers every-
time she read The Citzens Journal
To be shore that was before
Pearl Harbor because sich artick-
les can't be bought now on account
of them big manufacturing fellers
helping win the war by making all
sorts of war gadgets for the sold-
iers to fight with instid of making
house keeping artickles to help
make wimmen more lazier. Shore
and them which wernt fur sighted
enough to supply their selves with
sich artickles before the war jist
has to wait for the duration to git
em. Yes sir, them Southwestern
Gas and Electric fellers is now
helping to win the war by sending
their men to be soldiers and also
by buying them war bonds every
day of the world and also urging
of their employees to do the same.
Well, I reckon you are dyin' to
know how come me to git pinted
to sich a big government position
as air raid warden and blackout
policeman for Coon Skin Crossing
and Lucindy to git the job of food
dictator. Well sir, here's how come.
When Pearl Harbor got sot
upon December 1941 by them dev-
ilish yeller Japs I heard the news
down at Jeremier Plunkett's store
and I rushed home to tell Lucindy
about it and I sez as I sot down
(follored by ole Tige) I sez, "Lu-
cindy war has busted loose and
we've all got to git busy helping
ole USA to win the war and . . ."
"How do you mean, git busy?"
sez she.
"Why by lickin them durn Japs
as well as ole Hitler," I replies
back.
"Well ole man, just how do you
figger to do any helpin when I
can't skeercely git you to cut and
tote in a arm load of wood or hoe
the garden; and if it weren't fer
me making you git us hooked up
to the Ark.-La. Gas Co., so's we
could git het up with nateral gas
and so's I could cook a square meal
of vittles without gittin my eyes
full of smoke from that dratted
ole wood stove you make me cook
on for 40 years, till I jest drove
| into Atlanta and got one of them
fine gas ranges brung out and
j passel of gas beaters wed a sot
|right here and froze to death last
; winter; and now you come pran-
jcin up here and say you are goin
jto help the US win the war. Now
jest tell what is yer big figgera-
I lions in that direction." sez she
plum scorful like to me and I re-
| plies l>ack. "Well, the President
j will need a right smart bit of ad-
vice and he'll need big fellers like
me up thar in Washington to I
propose to go to Texarkana board
one of them Sunshine Trailway
buses and go plum to Washington
to git me a swivel chair job, same
as many other big corporation fel-
lers are rioin."
"Well sir," sez she, lookin plum
serus at me over them specs,
"Swivel chere job? When did St
git to the pint, Jeems, that you
can't set out thar on the front
porch in one of them hide bottom
cheres a chawin and smokin same
as you have done for 40 years?"
"Oh," I sez "Lucindy female
wimmin don't know nothing about
politics and never can be larnt
nothing. The swivel chere jobs is
in them big offices up thar in
Washington where men sets and
looks wise (and acts plum foolish
most of the time) and you have
to have a right smart of pull to
git sich a job but I think I can
get hold of Senator Tom Connal-
ly's and Wright Patman's ear for
ten minutes and git one of them
swivel cheres myself and in sich
a case I'll spend most of my time
in Washington advising the Presi-
dent (when I ain't flyin in the air
and ridin on trains at government
expense of course)."
Well, if the durned old pesky
critter didn't up and say that be-
ins female wimmin would also be
needed to help win the war, she'd
also git ready and go to Alldays
and git Mrs. Jackson and Mrs.
McClung to fit her up to date gar-
ments and prance up to Washing-
ton her own Belf and see about
maybe to help out Miss Perkins or
Mrs. Roosevelt, seein as how them
two female wimmin pears to have
job of Presidential advisor her
own self and she'd git things so
gommed up it would take a Phil-
adelphia lawyer to git 'em un-
gommed.
Shore she would, so I pintedly
sot my foot down on her goin to
Co. to build us a up to date house j
with the every modern convenience j
all painted up inside and out with
Duponts paints and a fine Texas
co roofin it and with a breakfast
nook and telephone booth. Well
sir Lucindy she jist spoke up and
Washington. 1 lit out fer the barn ' sez now dont bother about no break
(Follered by ole Tige a waggiri | fast nook because me and Jeems
his tail same as if he was agreein j Rainwater aint going to eat break-
with me about Lucindy's foolish- fast in no nook where we wont
ness) to sorter mediate it over, [have room enough to cut up our
Well, whilst I was sittin thar whit-J meat without gouging each other j
tlin on a stick and meditatin ole | in the jaw with our elbows but
Hill Smith, who is as hen-pecked for him to make a big kitchen so's
as me passed by in his ole wore we can have a eatin table right in
out flivver on his way to Atlanta front of the winder so's we wont
Lumber and Supply Co. after a! git no flies in our vittles whilst j
load of lumber which Mirandy told j we're eating, so Kelly said O. K.
him to fetch out so's to mend the by him and he'd build that house
big hole on the back porch by
which Bill sez he kotch his big toe
in a steel trap sot thar by Mirandy
to suit Lucindy for sez he fur be
it from Atlanta Supply and Lum-
ber Co. to build a house which don't
to ketch a big rat which she, suit wimmen folks, so he complete
though was eating up her little
chickings, and she made ole Bill
git up in the dark to see if a rat
or a weasel was trying to git her
chickings and by jolly instid of the
ketching the varmint in that steel
ly changed them plans. Shore he
did and built our bungaloo to suit
Lucindy instid of me.
Yes sir and Lucindy she went
immejutly to Mrs. Lillian Oliver j
and got our new house insured
ESTABLISHED 1879
down and write you what I find
out.
Well, Petuny, she jest driv up
in Tobe's ole fliver and asked
Lucindy if 8he wouldn't go in
with her to Alldays big dry goods
store and help her select a suit-
able bunch of uniforms for them
S. O. T. S. to wear when they git
on dress parade (but between me
and you Harrell, I don't see how
they can call it a dress parade
when nary one of em don't wear
dresses no more but has now
I arrayed themselves out in britch-
es (which garments they call slacks
and skirts.)
Yes, Sir, and, D. P. don't you
know that Tobe Spilkins come
nigh goin' back on Petuny Carrie
Nations Scroggins when he seed
she was figgerin' on gittin' marr-
ied in Skin light red satin britches
and a handkerchief tied around her
head instid of a wedding veil and
Tobe said he warn't going to marry
no gal arrayed out in britches for
when he kissed a bride he wants
her to look like a female woman
instid of a Mexican bull fighter.
Yes, sir, And he then and thar
sulked on Petuny and refused to
lead her to the halter unless she
wore a wedding dress; and that's
how come Petuny to hike herself
| straight to Alldays and git the
knowing dress lady to fit her out
in some fine wedding clothes for
she wern't going to take no chanc-
j es on losing Tobe jest as she got
him steered up to the wedding halt
er. No, sir, not Petuny Carrie Na-
1 tions Scroggins.
But D. P. the main pint of this
here letter is to let you know that
| I shore will be in Atlanta next
The modern Molly Pitcher will grreet you throughout the nation on , , . .. LUcjn(jy to stay
August 4th when brigades of Mollys will tag every buyer of War Bonds i . ' , , . ViaVp the car
and Stamps. They will carry on the tradition of the Revolutionary War | at home and let. me have the car
heroine who has gone down in history because she aided her fighters at j to ride in, but be keerful
the battle of Monmouth in 1778. I them ads you print in yer paper a
tellin what them store keepers has
Molly Pitcher Tag Day, Aug. 4
at Coon Skin Crossing and also
driving around in their cars too
Their main object in life (it!** in the way of bargains for if
. ' , . . i she sees ary single artickle adver-
pears to me)is to dance and eat j tiged she-n right in to git .t
trap by golly Bill ses she kotch 1 and also all our goods and chatties
him by the toe and he was going
to fetch out a load flooring to
patch that hole so's sich a catastro
phy wouldn't be fall him agin. No
sir.
But speaking of lumber, Harrell
did you hear what a scanlous ca-
per Lucindy cut the day ole Bill
Smith diskivered us in the ditch
and drug un in East Texas Motor
Co. where Lucindy told the obleeg-
ing Abb Brabham that it was all
my keerJess driving which casioned
and dog gone if she didnt also
take out tornado insurance and
she also got our new Chevrolet in-
suread agin fire and theft and lia-
bilities so's if some fool driving a
fliver should run into us or we
busted into him, Mrs. Lil Oliver's !
fine companies could take care of j
the damages, and mor'n that she i
took out a hospitalization policy
on both me and her and also went
right over to Hanners and got Mr.
Hanner to write us up a burial
much (sich as goin to picnics and and play around with them soldiers I , an(1 fetch 80me more 0f
" -J 15 J < and ,also agiv.n their own selves I them Coon gkia wimmen> with her.
a good time) and 111 tell you all , ^ ghe wi[) and j dm,t want
about them, S. O. T. S. later. f0]ierjn me around because I
But so fur all I have seed em ^ j^ay drop into see you and have a
do is dancing the legs offen them j deep <^,,4 talk with you about
fellers at them training camps and po,1itiCSt arKj specially with regard
marryin of 'em when they can talk to dojngs 0f them Congress fel-
'em into it. over yander nigh to lerg anJ the c j q strike.
us to git in the ditch on account j policy in Hanner Burial Associa-
of me gazing at a gal dressed up j tion which he done plum willingly
in Kaky britches riding a hoss a and told Lucindy she shore had a
fur seeing head on her and if all |
wimmen was fur seeing as her thar j
wouldn't be so many broke men J
folks.
Yes sir she then and thar went 1
right into the Atlanta National
Bank and handed Henry King the
obleeging President a wad of bills
straddel down the road instid of
steering ole lizzie proper.
Shore she did but 1 also told
Abb Braham it'was because of her
grabbing my arm and hollering
like a wild injun which fulstered
me so I could not drive plum scien-
tific like 1 inginerly do.
Well Abb he told us not to worry j which had drapped out of her stock
for the knowing service manager | jng when she slipped on a bananer
Mr. McCasland could fix it up just j peel and busted her garter and
like a new one and he was surpris- was hope up to her feet by Mr.
ed to see us gittin any where in | Price who advised her that toting
sich a old boat which looked like | money in stockings was awful on
the car Methusler must a owned safe place and her to git into a
when he was driving them Children | bank and depsit that money for
of Isrel through the wilderness. | safe keeping and him advising her
Well the knowing and obleegin that The Atlanta National Bank
Mr. McCasland, Service Manager ] was the safest place in Texas for
at the East Texas Motor Co. who her to tote her money.
knows more about fixing up busted 1 Yes sir, she told Henry King she
flivers than Henry Ford hisself or I had heerd his bank so well recom-
Mr. Chevrolet, he looked her over | mended by a feller named Price
and told us she was a wreck, I and for him to put her money a-
but he believed he could fix her j way for safe keeping and not to
up so's we could trade her off on (let me git out ary single cent un-
to Abb Brabham in a trade for a j less the check was signed by her
bran new Chevrolet which McCas- own self in person in her own hand
land said would haul us any where writing; and if they got a chanst
we wanted to go and look like I to loan that mon^y out to charge
something after we got thar with j considerable interest and as soon
a brail new set of extry Goodrich ] as 1 got to sleep and snoring so
tires and the injine filled up with loud I couldn't hear thunder she
good Gulf Gasoline and McCas- would git all the money out of my
and sid a rich ile magnet like me
ougth to be ashamed to be ketched
britches pockets when I hang my
britches on the bed post and she
riding in sich a ole wore out boat I will also fetch my money thar for
as our lizzie flivver with the injine
sot in up side down and several
parts left out which ole Lige Fer-
kins didn't know where to put 'em
back and he advised us to begin
dickering with Mr. Braham at once
before they was all gone on one of
them fine six cylinder Chevrolets
which 1 done and also got extry
Goodrich tires and got her filled
up with that good Gulf Gasoline
and believe me she shore was some
traveler, and is yet. Well Lucindy
was looking so awful in her tore
up dress. I told her I wernt will-
ing to be seed with her until she
rigged up in some proper duds.
So after Bill Smith pinting her
to Alldays where him and Mirandy
does all their dry goods and ready
to wear trading, Lucindy she went
over and got fitted out by Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. McClung in some
fine new dresses and Bill said be-
fore he forgot Mirandy's order
he would hustle right over to the
Atlanta Lumber and Supply Co.,and
pay off a note his house which
them obleeging folkc had built.
So me and Bill got in his wag-
on and went over to The Lumber
Co., and thar I diskivered the fel-
ler runing the Lumber Co., wernt
nobody else but Kelly Hall, who we
had knowed in days went by when
Kelly was a young jelly bean like-
feller a coming down to Possum
Holler from Paris a fishing and do-
ing considerable more sparkin of
them Possum Holler gals than he
done a fishing. Shere he did. Well
on account of me having knowed
Kelly for sich a spell I then and
thar got him sot to drawing up
planse for a new bungalo I figgered
to build as soon as I got located
and also a fine barn to house the
safe keeping I spent it in riotous
living.
Well the obleeging Henry King
he told her he would be glad to
take care of all our money although
he didn't exactly approve of wim-
men robbing their husband britches
pockets when they're asleep but
Henry said sich practices is being
done to men folks every where by
the loving dotin wives of their
buzoms and that may be the rea-
son he sez why some of their wim-
men customers has got sich big
bank accounts and their husbands
sich little ones.
Any way thats what Lucindy
done and — But D. P., I reckon
you're a dying to know whuther I
got my swivel chere job when 1
went to Washington.
Did I land my swivel cheer job?
Gol dum it, NO! Why thar was
several thousan fellers ahead of
me and whilst Tom Connally and
Wright Patman was tickled plum
to death to see me and said they
shore would like to git me a swi-
vel chpre job but thar jest worn't
enough of them jobs to go around
on account of nearly every man
in Texas a gangin up on Tom and
Wright after them jobs until they
was about to lose their minds to
sich an extent they can't skeerce-
ly git no chance to legislate no
new tax law in Congress. Yes,
sjr, that was the situation, but
both of 'em told me they would
see that I was pinted to a big of-
fice sich as air raid warden and
blackout policeman for Coon Skin
Crossing which I now am.
Now, as for Lucindy, gol durn
it, if she didn't set down and
write them fellers a letter saying
as how folks was eatin too much
bridge-parties and night clubs)
and something ough to be done
about it and don't you know they
then and there pinted Lucindy to
be food dictator and gasoline ra-
tioner here at Coon Skin Cross-
ing. And as soon as Lucindy got
the pintment of OPA chief she
sot right down to her telephone Coon Skin Crossing in one of them
and called up Sister Tweekins and 1 Lone Star and Red River training
pinted her Chief Snooper to see camps and also, them T. N. T. boys
that Jeremier Plunket gits them and Lucindy she heerd Petuny a
ceiling prices right on his grocer-1 lecturing her bunch on what and
ies. | how to do and sez, "Now gals the |
I reckin you have heerd about mainest thing is to Ketch a Sold-1 Journal Office,
the Coon Skin Crossing being or- ier and Marry Him—if you can! —
ganized by Petuny Scroggins into, before he gits overseas—because if
the SOTS? | he don't come back you'll git a wid- |
What on earth is them S. 0. T.-!ers pension and whilst he's over
S. did you say? Oh that's a club yander fightin them Japs and Na-
organized by Petuny Carrie Na- i z's we can be having a good time |
tions Scroggins here at Coon Skin ] on the allowance the government I
gives to soldiers wives and if we j
have to work we shore can git all
the good jobs which the soldiers j
laid down when they jined the
army and if we play our cards well
we'll keep them jobs when the!
war is over."
Jest as soon as I git more low
down on them S. O. T. S. I'll set
Your true friend and champeen.
Jeems Rail Vater, Esq.
Air Raid Warden Black Out.
Police N.
v
Second Sheets, Carbon Papef,
Crossin' which calls theirselves
"Sweethearts of the Soldiers."
Petuny asaying as how she
weren't goin to let no Career Gals
Soldierettes, Guardettes and WAA-
Cs and WAVES git ahead of Coon
Skin Crossing gals entertain the
soldiers and helping to win the
war. No, siree.
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