This is the old lowest and I've been laying off to give you some more information on this event that's coming up down here on May the 6th. That's the first Sunday in May and it's a you know I was singing all day and dinner on the grounds and I told you about it a couple weeks ago, but Boy, they've got a mess down here now, and I don't know if it's I don't know if they're gonna have this even or not. It's a it's a it's a just You know people down here not talking to each other of the churches split halfway into now I don't I don't to go to that church up there. I don't have nothing again churches I just don't go now.
I try to I don't I'm not saying I ain't religious because I am and I try to help people all I can and And I give people if people need something, you know, I'm hungry I need a place to stay or whatever I try to help people in every way that I can but I just never did You know belong to a church now. I've been to churches before but anyway I wouldn't tell you what's what's going on down here, and it is just awful and people not speaking to each other You know I was talking about it one time and I kind of give my opinion and and it made them mad at me and people You know flossy butts wouldn't speak to me for three or four days So I learned one thing from the whole thing and that is to keep my mouth shut and that's what I do I ain't I said nothing to nobody and I ain't going to but I'm gonna tell you what happened or and try to if best I can What they done, you know, they I told you they was having this thing down here called singing all day and and dinner on the grounds and they was gonna Sell tickets to it, you know five dollars apiece and they was trying to raise money to paint the church house Well, I bought a ticket. I don't have no you know, the church house does need painting and I know they needed it And so I bought me a ticket Well, that was all well and good But pretty soon I got a call from the preacher up there and and he said that them tickets was $20 a piece and He said that I owed $15 well I told that preacher right quick that I wasn't going to pay you know $20 for just the singing and a dinner that I was willing to pay my share, but I thought $20 was a little bit But you know a little bit too much Well, I didn't think no more about it but in a couple of days I happened to turn on the radio there and and I heard that preacher on the radio and He was advertising the singing all day and dinner on the grounds up here at the church house and What he said was he said that they were going to have this group up there called Kitty and the Camden kittens and boys quick as I heard that I went up there and bought me a ticket because I've seen them and and They put on you know a real good show now they they ain't mad girls as far as I know they're not but they they play up here at this little old beer garden and They play you know good whole good Well not Christian music, but they nothing wrong, you know what they say now some of the Some of the sisters up here at the church was saying that they wore these what they call these skippy outfits is what they said well I've seen them and I think they look you know real real nice and they don't show nothing much You know that way and I don't have no I really enjoy watching them and looking at them and for as I can say say they ain't they ain't doing no harm for as I can tell but couple the Sisters up here said that some of us showing their underwear where I seen that and and I've you know I would think that I would have seen that if that was because I'd be watching for that You know, but I didn't see nobody showing no underwear up there, but anyway Flossy butts said that if they come down here That she was going to skin kitty and paddle the cats I mean to paddle the kittens. That's what she said that she was going to skin kitty and paddle the kittens and So that's when I got you know Oh my mouth when I should have because I mean shouldn't of course I don't belong to the church and I ought not to gotten you know mixed up in it and I learned something from that and I ain't never gonna do that anymore, but You know she said that they played up here at this beer garden and Well, I'm gonna come back here in just a minute I've got a I've got to put out some feed for the cows But I'm gonna come back and tell you the rest of this story because it uh it really is a mess down here and I hope it I hope it comes down, but I don't see no way for it too.
Oh Well, I was I was telling you about these this church up here and about these kittens coming down here you know, they hired them a preacher hard them is what he done and a Lot of the women got you know out of sorts about it and they one thing that they said was that these girls These kittens played down here in this beer garden. Well, they do that's the truth but they nothing wrong with the beer garden as far as I can tell and You know, I told you before that they had these palahatton possums that was scheduled to play down here You know, they play bluegrass music and they they play You know, it's not church music, but it's just you know country bluegrass and of course when they play at a church house They play, you know gospel bluegrass like good, you know, let the church roll on and and and four books in the Bible And I'll have a new body and you know stuff like that You you've all heard it and then women, you know, these bluegrass possums They play down here in this beer garden to beer garden too and then women didn't say nothing about that So, you know, that ain't right because if they don't like for people to play in a beer garden Then they ought not to let them them possums come down here neither because it's the same thing and they just they just don't like them girls and I think I don't know for sure But I believe it's just because that they're they're pretty and they young young girls and you know, uh, they Women are just you know jealous of them and they don't want them down here now. That's my opinion But that's what I think it is. But anyway uh, they went to the preacher and taught him about it and told him that they couldn't He couldn't sign them girls up and he said he had already done it He said he didn't know that anybody would object to that and they needed the money and he said that uh, he had already Signed a contract with them Well, them people in the church on the board that met down there and they said the preacher Didn't have no right to do that Well, of course, I've told you that I never have been a member of the church And so I always figured that the preacher was ahead of the church and could do what he wanted to but I know this Man down here that's owned the board and he said that wasn't right He said that the board set the policy for the church and that any money that was spent by the church That the board had to approve it as a matter of fact He said that the preacher didn't have no right to spend no money at all that he had to take it to the board and get them to approve it well, the what they done was that they Cancelled the contract that he had signed and they Tell you what they called voted the check that he had that he had wrote and so when them kittens took that check To the bank well the bank told them it wasn't no count because the said it had been voted I guess that means that you don't you know that you disapprove of the check or something anyway, they they didn't get their money and so What the preacher done then was that he had he's got this Fund up there this money up there that he can spend they call it his Screshingary fund is what they call it and it's really a he's got about about five hundred dollars in that fund and He is supposed to spend that you know whenever he sees a need You know somebody Hungry or somebody you know getting thrown out of their house or can't pay the rent or whatever He's supposed to help him well what he done was that he took some of that the money out of his Screshingary fund there and and paid them girls them kittens to come down here And when the board found out about it because he had to report it to the board of course and when when he reported it to the board They had a spell I'm telling you and they went right straight to the bank and voted that check too And they are talking about church in the preacher they talked about getting another preacher and The preacher you know he said he had a right to do that.
Well, I don't know but that that man told me He said he didn't have no right to do that at all. He said that Screshingary fund was just made for you know What I told you emergencies and so in a way them kittens are talking about suing the church and So I asked a man about that and he said well they didn't they didn't have the church didn't have no contract with them He said they might sue the preacher and so He said that was up to them and the preacher that they didn't have no claim again the church So I don't know what they're gonna do and I'm gonna tell you something else They've sold about 700 tickets to that Singing all day and dinner on the grounds and I can't hear you. You can't get 700 people in that church house You you can't get 150 people in that church house It's a little little old bitty church and you can't get You can't get 700 people in there to save your life so I don't know what they're gonna do and everybody down here says that they bought a ticket and they're coming and So I don't know what they're gonna do They everybody's all messed up and split up over it and up and I don't know what's gonna happen Now another thing is that they didn't you know the preacher didn't keep up with the records of how many tickets he sold and he said he sold about 300 tickets and I know that he sold more than that But he didn't keep up with it and I don't know if he put some of the money in his pocket I don't think he would because I know that preacher and I think he's an honest person But I don't think he knows having any tickets He sold because he turned it over to that little girl down here that runs it runs office and people come in on her So fast and was buying up him tickets and she didn't keep a total of it She didn't know she was supposed to didn't nobody tell her what to do She's just she's about 17 years old and she's in high school And they just give her that job You know to kind of help her make the census and she didn't know what she was doing And so she didn't keep up with it the preacher don't know and it is just to miss I'm telling you all the people down here are saying they're gonna see the kittens and then women say the kittens ain't coming and The board says the kittens ain't coming and so and I don't know if the possums are coming or not So I'll keep letting you know if I hear anymore about it because they're gonna have to settle this mess somehow or other Either they gonna have to follow the preacher and I hope that don't happen because he's a good He's a good man and I don't think he meant nothing. I think he was just trying to raise money You know for the church and I think that's what he had in mind and some of the people said he Succeeded his authority well, no that might be true because I believe this I believe this fella down here He knows the rules of the church and he said that preacher didn't have no right to do what he done And and I believe he's probably right because I know he knows the rules of the church And he just you know they they appointed him to keep the rules down here because he knows what they was and he knows about You know these rules is passed by the convention and he knows what they are and so I'm sure that he's he's telling the truth But anyway, that's the story and you've got two groups coming and you got them when the women Raisin's saying over here and you got the church members that you know Don't not involved in it But they don't think that they ought to spend money for the you know unless it's approved by the board And so I'm I'm afraid that the whole church is going bust up now You say why does that matter to you because you know you don't go to the church Well, I know that but the church is a part of the community and and I don't like to see the community all Upset and and arguing with one another they need to work together on this thing and come to some kind of Decision about making it right, you know, and I don't know what they're going to do because there's some awful strong We owe people in that in this community down here And I don't know what they're gonna do the only one that makes any sense is Emily and I told you about her She's been a member of the church ever since I can remember and she said that it was just a just a that they needed to just kind of Calm down and all of them get together and make a decision And she said they didn't need to jump on the preacher or said it was all a Bunch of mistakes that a lot of people had made and they need to all calm down and I think I think Emily's right I really do but anyway I'll keep you informed because I know that some of you had told me that you was interested in coming down here on the 6th of May and I don't know who's gonna be here.
I don't know if I go have a dinner I don't know anything, but I'll let you know just as soon as I as soon as I find out