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 Holabird AdvocateProviding all the news we see fit to print since 2002!Saturday, July 09, 2005 VOL. IV Issue 7D Media Turns the Heat on Senator Thune There is a series of high fives all around for the bang up job that blogs and the MSM has done on reporting South Dakota Junior Senator, John Thune, and his connection to a used car dealer. The Holabird Advocate has been quiet on this story, since we know nothing about it, and unlike some people, we aren't afraid to admit it. They say, "Where there's smoke, there is fire". We see neither smoke nor fire. The man we call "The Watcher" does, however, and so we'll see what comes of it. One thing we know for sure is that the fact that he and Todd Epp seem to agree on this. The fact that they agree on anything as shaken us so that all of us here at the Holabird Advocate are going to show up early for church tomorrow. Jesus is close at hand, Ya'll! New Bedroom For the Hinkles With a brand new carpet in the living room, Mary Hinkle turned her attention to the bedroom. She put the old living room carpet in there, replacing the 35 year old carpet that came with the house. It was then that the bed ceased to be to Harold Hinkle's liking. He and Mary braved the 102 degree weather on Friday afternoon to look at mattresses in the Pierre area furniture stores. A Sealy unit at Klocker's with a picture of "The Counting Sheep" did it for Harold, and so it was purchased before he had a chance to change his mind. The next morning, Harold got Jerry Hinkle out of bed early so they could take delivery of the mattress when the store opened at 9 am. Jerry noticed quite a few changes since the last time he was in Pierre. Pizza Hut moving across the street, Taco John's new look, and the road construction near Dakotamart, just to name a few. Jerry was tempted to call the Professor from SD War College, since he now knows his name. He thought better of it because, after all, it was the weekend. The Professor has a wife and six kids, so he didn't need to be bothered with one of his Summer School students, even for just a while. Instead, he and Harold went to Doug Hinkle's house and watched Cade drive his battery powered dump truck. Jerry noticed that Cade kinda drives like his great-grandfather, E.E. Hinkle, used to. By the way, E.E. gave up his license 4 years ago. The new bed is installed now, so Harold should sleep like a baby (minus the crying to be fed and changed we hope). All of us here at the Holabird Advocate wish Harold and Mary another 35 years of happy slumbering, or as close as they can come to it. E.E. Hinkle Has Hard Time Hearing God The Hinkle family struggle with getting 102 year old E.E. Hinkle to hear them when they talk. It would help if he would listen, but that's how it goes. For a while it seemed as though God Himself was the only one he could listen to, but that seems to be going by the wayside too. The old boy claimed that God told him he wouldn't be around for his birthday. For good measure, he also told E.E. that he had a doctor's appointment on July 5 (ah, no, he didn't). Also that his birthday was in 3 days (more like 2 weeks). Is the Almighty has this much trouble talking to him, imagine how difficult it is for the rest of us. Still, we all love him. As Bergit Hinkle once observed, "He's a pain in the butt, but he's my pain in the butt." Hard to believe she only had an 8th grade education with wisdom like that.
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