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 Holabird AdvocateProviding all the news we see fit to print since 2002!Monday, August 25, 2003 VOL. II Issue 8O YES WE HAVE NO SILVER SWORD On behalf of our Publisher, all of us at the Holabird Advocate apologize for not having the "Silver Sword of Truth" high atop our front page. Bravenet.com is currently "working on it", and we are asked to "please be patient". Bottom line: it happens when it happens. JERRY HINKLE TURNS DELIVERY DRIVER Holabird Advocate Publisher Jerry Hinkle spent the morning on a journey into Highmore to deliver Joyce Ferris's urine sample to the Highmore Clinic to see if her bladder infection is getting better. Apparently they wanted it today and as soon as possible. Joyce had a sample ready, but her father E.E. Hinkle dumped it in the toilet, so she made another one. After dealing with the road construction west of Highmore he made it to the clinice with the sample, placed in a jelly jar, which was placed in a plastic butter dish, which was in turn placed in a 5 quart ice cream pail. the clinic official that took the sample didn't ask if he wanted the recepticles back, and he didn't ask for them back, he just proceeded to the drug store, the grocery store, to Roger and Vicki Day's house to pick up his copy of the video of "A Good Land", and then to Nadine Day's house to visit her for a spell. He got home in time for dinner after going through the road construction. BRITTANY HINKLE GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH Kristi Hinkle took he Daughter Brittany to Huron to see the doctor for a check-up. Brit has been sick for a good deal of the summer, but it appears that, for a while anyway, those days are behind her. Dr. Kappur could find nothing that would prevent Brit from entering first grade later on this week. GAS PRICES GO UP SHARPLY The prices for both gasoline and ethanol have risen 20 cents in the last three weeks in the Hyde County area. A shortage has been blamed for this increase in price. Truth be told, all of us at the Holabird Advocate, including the Publisher, are more upset about that than the whole "Silver Sword" problem that we have now. DRY SPELL CONTINUES FOR BARBARA NEMEC Despite the intentions of somne well meaning people. Holabird's own Barbara Nemec has not written another play. Some have suggested that Nemec write something about the history of Holabird, which may not be all that bad of an idea. Part of what struck a cord with "A Good Land" is that even though it was true-to-life, it was, for the most part, a work of fiction. She could do that. Of course, all of us at the Holabird Advocate understand the creative process. We don't publish everyday an edition everyday. We'd either have to make stuff up, or write substandard material. Nobody wants that. We'd be no better that the "New York Times" if we did that. Neither should Barbara Nemce be forced to write something that she knows will be substandard material. Inspiration could strike again. when it does, it will truly be a work of art. HOLABIRD'S SISTER CITY IS A GHOST TOWN There is a certain amount of irony that Holabird, South Dakota's newly adopted Sister City of Hinkletown, Iowa is registered on the "Ghost Towns of the Old West" Web Ring. The town, which boasts a population of 20, has also requested that Keokuk County give it a tornado siren.
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