Letter to the Editor

An Ode to Cherokee County

Dear Editor:

Having forgotten that William Shakespeare had enshrined March as the most unlucky time of year, my dog Norma and I embarked on a trip to Joplin in my 1973 Chevrolet truck last Friday, with high hopes of scoring a great deal on a new clothes dryer at the Joplin Lowes.

About three miles out on the Crestline road I heard a click, click, click sound from the right rear tire. I stopped to in…