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Loreen Faust had to shut down the café again last week-ago Monday. The water went all rusty on them, again. She took water to a table she was waitin' on, and the people said, "we didn't order no iced tea, ma'am". She looked at the brown water in those glasses and realized the problem right away. They opened up two days later after her son-in-law dug them a new well.

Beatrice Ledbetter won second prize at the Fall's County Fair with her "Sock Monkeys". She dresses her sock monkeys up to portray various professions, such as doctor, lawyer, golfer, etc. They are real cute.

They had quite a to do at the hospital the other day. They were removing the asbestos from the ceiling in the neo-natal unit and set of the sprinkler system three times. The nurses no sooner got all the linens changed and the patients in dry gowns than it happened a second time, then a third. The workers said they were real sorry and hope to get all the asbestos out of the nursery by the end of the week. They have pink or blue plastic canopies over the baby beds to keep em from gettin' any asbestos fragments dropped on em. Id'n that darlin’.

The grocery store out by the cemetery got three new grocery carts this week. People had complained that there weren't enough. You shouldn't have to wait for one now. Verniele Dimwiddy said they were the new kind like she saw in Huffman at their H.E.B. one time, when she was takin' care of her sickly aunt that had that real bad skin condition. They finally peeled off two layers of skin on her entire body, then dunked her under, head and ears in a big vat of somethin' she said smelled like mosquito repellent and felt like dippity-do. Well, you know, after the scabs come off she was fine. But, Verniel had to go down to the H.E.B. to get her Noxzema and Solarcaine spray, and that’s when she noticed the grocery carts. And now we got some like em.

We were without emergency vehicles for about three days last week, when the fire truck smashed into the ambulance on the way to two completely different unrelated emergencies. Zeda Earl Spivey was turnin' out of the new Telebank drive-thru thing onto Oleander and she was lookin down countin her money cause she doesn’t trust machines and she didn’t know the fire truck was behind her ‘til the last minute. Her purse handle got twisted on her arm and the gearshift and in her confusion she mashed on the windshield spray and couldn’t see to get out of the way.

The fire engine had to swerve into the oncoming lane and weave around her and that’s when they broadsided the ambulance in the middle of the intersection. Harvey Fuches was inside that ambulance with a acute appendicitis attack goin on. The impact popped the back doors open and Harvey was thrown clear. Almost 30 feet landin’ in the holly bushes the Boy Scouts planted in front of the post office. The E.M.S. guy said it was a good thing cause the stretcher where Harvey had been layin was mashed flat. He broke a collarbone and bruised a rib, and the holly bushes cut him up pretty bad.

They put em in the back of Snyder Lightfoot’s delivery truck and took him on to the hospital and it turns out he wud'n havin’ a appendicitis attack after all. His wife had given him fried catfish, curried rice casserole and cucumber salad vinaigrette, and he was just havin a bad reaction. And oh yeah, Marydell Washmyer's house burnt completely up, cause the fire truck couldn’t get there. But no big loss. I have never cared much for Marydell and I simply couldn’t stand that hideous shade of green she had painted her shutters.

Well, you be good and we'll see you real soon. Oh Hey, Lester's Momma died and she was a pretty good-sized old gal. I'll send you some of her clothes. It looks like there's a couple of nice dresses If I can get the stains out.

Bye Now,