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                  <text>Johnsonville's mayor got .scared
and e.rlecl the. first time be was iD
the town. . ·,
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1 · And the 9!)ca,Sion ·prodiic~· tears

qnly for 06eU Venters. 'Ibis thiDC

happened; ilaturally.- many· Y.e ars
l1ago
Odell was· but a yoUDJ·
wb~n

~ ster iJl·ovefalls•.~ms the Veaters

•lived about'- three miles frOm.Job.o. SOilVille• .
partciul.ar ·-Saturday
was-.to ,be aD eventful one in'
Odell's ·li!e-he ·.was c:omiog in to
town with his father: .'Tbey drove
in a bui&amp;Y. ·Mayor .Venter.s
that his fa~ pulled up to a' hitch·
.iol post about wbere -. the ·present
pollee·
is....located.·
.
. station·
.
. ... ...

Tbis :

'recallS

,: ~e hQrse ,was lect·_ at_. tbe post,
appar~nUy bitched·and cont~t. But 1

I

5ometh.i.Jit happened· to excite the
animal and .he . broke·, away and
beaded. home. F.athtr ·venters left:
Odell at : a · :hardware store and
went for the. horSfl,aud blifiY·
."Wh.n· Dad-..came back. I was
·standinf in ·front 'o~ .~he .store cry·
iol my lieart out &amp;od- sCared half
to'deatb," Mayor Venters 'reealls.
Alid all this cryinl · took' ·ptaee
ne~.: the ·sj,of .where . Odell 'tcMlay
operat~~S a .department store.
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