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that little voice

I’ve come to believe humor may be the best way to dismantle an overgrown ego. What bully do you know or have encountered who can stand to be mocked, laughed at or discounted by the jab of a joke? Most people who have a habit of pushing people around and belittling them are ill-equipped to handle the same techniques when the direction is reversed.
that little voice

Fifty Cents For a Half Day of Work?

I was about eight years old when on certain summer days; I was summoned to walk up the hill to my uncle’s hay patch to help him with baling the hay. He had the only hay press for miles around and also did custom baling for most of his neighbors. The hay press would be positioned by a huge pile of loose hay. Then a gasoline engine operated the baler as hay was pitch-forked into an open box at the top. As the hay was compressed and moved along to the back of the machine, one person would stick wire through a slot in a wooden separator block positioned between each bale to separate them. The wire had to completely go around the bale, so the person had to walk around to the other side or lean way over to get the job done. This is where my job came in. All I had to do was stand there all day and when the wire came through the block separating the bales, I had to pull it out a little further and insert it into the front block slot. Then the tie-person would take both ends of the wire and wrap them together tying the compressed hay into a bale.
Fifty Cents For a Half Day of Work?

What Are You For or Against?

To the Editor: Your Bible and your Constitutional framers warn against being “lukewarm.” The future of your country begs against being lukewarm. Be hot or be cold but not luke warn or God will “spit you out of his mouth.” Beware as a government unresponsive to historical Judo/Christian and Constitutional values will spit out your freedoms.

Reality Check

To the Editor: I am responding to a ¾ page paid political advertisement which John Mikus published in the Oct. 2, 2020 edition of this paper.
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