Putnam County herald., September 21, 1911, Image 7

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A QUEER
TOURNAMENT
By ANDREW C EWING
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
"How Is it, Mr. Martlndale," said
Miss Ashby, "that you men talk to
each other as you do? Wbenerer you
and your chum, Mr. Warren, are to
gether you say all sorts of mean thin?:
to each other, but I don't see that
either of you gets angry."
"Oh, we understand each other."
"V 1 wonder if Sadie and 1 could do
that"
"No, you couldn't without quarrel
ing." Miss Ashby was silent for a moment,
then said, "I'm going to try."
"I'll bet you a pound of- candy
against a cigar that you quarreL"
"I'll take the bet" 1
It was agreed between us that the
two girls should have a talking tourna
ment while they played a game of ten
nis, Dick Warren to furnish remarks
for Miss Blauchard, to be thrown In
occasionally, and I to do the same for
Miss Ashby. Umpires were, appointed,
and we all met by appointment at the
court.
We permitted the girls to play for
awhile without furnishing any re
marks during which time they said
what they considered very trying
things to each other, laughing all 'the
while and congratulating themselves
on their ability to maintain good hu
mor. After the first set had been play
ed Dick and I, each standing by the
girl he was to talk through, began to
put in an occasional word, producing
the following bits of dialogue:
"You give me another ball like that."
said Miss Asbby, "and I'll swipe you
with my racket"
Miss Blanchard only smiled.
"Now you're showing your rhinoc
eros tusk.", pursued Miss Ashby.
Miss Warren ceased to smile. In
deed, she looked very sober. The tooth
referred to was a blemish to her beau
ty. Dick made her retort. ,
"That remark was one of your own.
You weren't told to say it at all. I
think it real mean of you."
"Deuce!" cried Miss Ashby at my
suggestion, claiming 10 points more
than she was entitled to.
"You know very well ''its 30-40.
"What do you want to grab points like
that for?"
"If you knew." retorted the other,
"what a mad looking thing you were
when you said that you'd put your
head to soak." -
Miss Blanchard tried to laugh, but
was loo sensitive to laugh at a re
mark which- was untrue.
"I Ray, Clara"," she said when her
opponent failed to take a ball she
served, "if you'd stop looking sweet at
Mr. Martindale you'd play a better
game. Everybody knows what you're
up to in that direction." j
Dick scored one In putting that re
mark into Miss Blanchard'8 mouth.
Miss Ashby threw Vlown her racket.
"1 don't care." she said. "It doesn't
make any difference whether you were
prompted to say that or not; you had
no right to say it." Uer face was fiery
red, and her eyes "were snapping.
Miss Blanchard had not got over the
remarjt about her tusk and seemed to
take a malicious pleasure in saying
what Dick told her to say, sometimes
breaking Into short bits of irritating
laughter. .j . " ,". "
"Sadie, if you don't stop that gig
gling y6u'll drive me crazy," I made
Miss Ashby remark.
"Oh, don't be silly! You're making a
poor show of yourself. You should
have brought a handglass."
. . " You'd better Jia ve brought ojoq
' retorted Miss Ashby.
you'd have kept your
"If
tusk
yourself.1
you had
hidden."
Miss Blanchard dropped her racket
and strode on: the field.
"I didn't suppose." she said hotly.
tnat this was to be a tournament of
insults." . - v
Bliss Ashby followed her. walking
erect and with great hauteur. "I think
you two men bad better finish it." she
said. .
"Doner exclaimed both pick and I,
and, picking up the rackets, we began
to piay and to chaff. We both have
physical defects and did not . refrain
from delicate mention of them.
"Now I'm going to take you in the
bald spot on your forehead." from
Dick.
"And I'll knock one of those spin
dle pins from under you. Forty-thlr
ty."
xDirty-iorty, you mean, my your
first baby lessons were in lying."
"You know very well you've just out
of jail for perjury."
"Now I'm going to put a ball between
those bow legs of yours. I could throw
u barrel between 'em," .
"Which eye are you looking at me
with the upper or the lower?"
When we had sent these delicate
compliments for awhile we threw our
arms around each other and kissed,
after the European fashion, on both
cheeks. , This we did to show our su
periority in the matter of good nature
to the girls. The umpires decided that
I had won the bet. but sentenced me
to pay it 4 ' .
"I have no desire whatever," said
Miss Ashby. tossing her head, "to ex
cel at any such came.
"Nor have I," Miss Blanchard
chimed in.
"I'll admit." I said by way of apol
ogy, "that it's far more pleasant for
friends to say nice things to each oth
er." '; .".
Brougham and Mulled Port.
Lord Brougham who as a member
of the house of commons was a most
abstemious man. upon his promotion
to the peerage acquired less commend
able habits. .During his long and im-;
passioned appeal to the lords to re
frain from rejecting the reform bill
of 1S3J "five tumblers of mulled port,
with a dash of brandy, were brought
to him at Intervals." When he came
to his last sentence ("I warn you. I
implore you yea, on my bended knee
I supplicate you reject not this .bill")
he knelt on the woolsack, whence ho
slipped to the floor. It is recorded In
the "Lives of the Lord Chancellors"
that "he remained some time as if in
prayer, but his friends, alarmed lest
he should be suffering from the effects
of mulled port, picked him up and
placed him safely on the woolsack."
No. 2020
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION
In Chancery Court of Putnam County,
BILL OF REVIEW.
Sam Price vs. Cansada Messinger et al
In this cause it appearing from the
bill, which is sworn to, that Margrett
Taylor, and the children and heirs at
law of Matilda Slatton, whose names
and residence are unknown, and cannot
be ascertained after diligent inquiry,
are non-residents of the state of Ten
nessee;. that the children of Mollie Cope
also Nancy Green, Fina Matlock. Jane
Green, and the children of Combs Say
lors. whose ages and names are nn
known; also the heirs of Shoog Saviors
whose ages and names are unknown
and cannot be ascertained after diligent
enquiry, all of whom are made parties
defendant to this Bill of Review, they
ana eacn ot them are therefore requir
ed to appear on or before the first Mon
day in October, 1911, before the Clerk
and Master of said court at his office
in the town of Cookeville, Tennessee.
and make defence to the Bill of Review
filed against them and others in the
Chancery Court of. Putnam County,
Tenn., by Sam Price, on the 23rd day
of August, or the allegations in the
same will be taken for confsesed.
It is further ordered that this notice
be published for four consecutive weeks
in the Putnam Countv Herald.
This Aug. 28th, 191L
V. E. BOCKMAN,
- Clerk and Master.
By Ahrood Carlen. D. C. & M.
Boyd & Boyd, -T. L. Denny, Solicitors
ADVERTISEMENT for CREDITORS
To the Creditors of W. R. Poston: de
ceased:
In obedience to an order made by the
Chancery Court at Cookeville, Tenn.. in
the case of - Morgan Produce Co. et al
vs. Helen roston et al. the .creditors of
W. R. Poston, deceased, are herebv no
tified have , themselves made parties
to said cause by petition and prove their
claims against said Poston on or before
January 1st, 1912, or they may be ex
cluded from the benefit of said suit and
from sharing in the assets of said W,
R. .Poston, deceased.
Said creditors and claimants are also
hereby notified that by order of said
Court in said cause they and each of
them are enjoined from instituting any
suit against the said W. R. Poston, de
ceased, otherwise than by petition iu
said pending cause; and all parties now
suing the said W. H.' Poston, deceased,
are enjoined from proceeding in their
suits further than to judgment.
This July 10th, 1911.
; . . V. E. BOCKMAN, -
7 Clerk and Master.
By Algood Carlen,
D. C. & M. jull3-janl
It is easy td work your way up, but
hard on the people you work. .
ADVERTISEMENT FOR CREDITORS
To the Creditors' of the Monterey Coal
& Mining uo. : .''"
In obedience to an order made by the
(Jhancery uourt at Cookeville, Tenn.,
in the case of O. H. Anderson vs. Mon
terey Coal & Mining Co. et al. the cred
itors of said company are hereby notifi
ed to have themselves made parties to
said cause by petition, and to, file and
prove their claims against said company
in said cause on or before the first day
of November, 1911, or they may be ex
eluded from the benefits of said suit
and from sharing in the assets of said
company.
Said creditors and claimants are also
hereby notified that by order of said
Court in said cause, they, and each of
them, are enjoined i rom instituting any
suit against said company, otherwise
than by petition in said pending cause;
and all parties now suing said company
are enjoined from proceeding in their
suits further than to judgment.
This July 5, 1911.
V. E. Bockman,
jul6-novl ' Clerk and Master.
ADVERTISEMENT for CREDITORS
To the Creditors of W. G. Pratt Stave
Company:
In obedience to an order msde by the
Chancery Court at Cookeville, Tenn.,
in the case of John L. Boman vs. W.G.
Pratt Stave Co. et al, the creditors of
W. G. Pratt Stave Co. are hereby noti
fied to have themselves mad parties to
said cause by petition, and prove their
claims against said W. G. Pratt Stave
Co. on or before the fiijst day of De
cember, 1911, or they may be excluded
from the benefit of said suit and from
sharing in the assets of said W. G.
Pratt Stave Co.
Said creditors and claimants are also
hereby notified that by order ofsaid
Court in said cause they, and . each of
them are enjoined from instituting any
suit against the said W. G. Pratt Stave
Co. otherwise than by petition in said
cause; and all parties now suing the
said W.G. Pratt Stave Co. are enjoined
from proceeding farther in their 'suits
than to judgment.
This July 5th, 1911.
V. E. BOCKMAN,
ju!6-decl Clerk and Master.
i
Buck Lambs For Sale
I ; of Southdown breeding
iAIso Poland China Pigs g
& Registered Shorthorn Calves i
1 Prices reasonable. X
I Address, " J
I J. S. OFFICER J
Sparta, Tenn., Route 8 i
I
LAND SALE
In County Court at Cookeville, Tenn.
John R. Burgess et al
vs. Dee Sherreil et al. -
in ooeaience to a decree or the Coun
ty Court at Cookeville made at the Sep
tember Term, 1911, in the above styled
case. I will, on Saturday, the 14th day
of October, 1911, at 12 o'clock M., in
front of the Courthouse door in Cooke
ville. Tenn., sell to the highest and
best bidder, the property in said Decree
described, being a tract of land, known
as the Joel Burgess farm, lying and
being in the 2nd Civil District of Put
nam County, Tennessee, adjoining lands
of John Walker and others on the South.
John Bullock and Floro Taylor on the
East, J. M. Burgess on the North, and
George Boyd on the West, containing
100 acres, more or less.
TEttMSOF SALE
Said sale will be made on credit of 12
and 24 months, except 20 per cent, cash
to be paid on day of sale, and in bar of
eauitv of redemotion. Notes, drawirxr
interest from day of sale, with good
1 A ' 1 1 J.
the purchaser, and a lien will be retained
on the property sold as further security.
inia win aay oi aepcemner, ism.
W. O. Watson,
Clerk and Commissioner.
Boyd & Boyd, Solicitors. , 38-4t
NON-RESIDENT NOTICE
Lee Goolsbyvvs. Liddie Goolsbv
In the Circuit Court of Putnam County,
Tennessee
In this cause, it aoDearinff from com
plainant's bill, which is sworn to, that
the defendant, Liddie Goolsbv. is anon-
resident of the State of Tennessee, and
residence unknown, so that the ordinary
Erocess cf law can not be served ubon
er. it is therefore ordered that mibhca-
tion be made for four consecutive weeks
in the Putnam County Herald, a news
paper published in the town of Cooke
ville, Tennessee, requiring defendant,
Liddie Goolsby, to appear before the
Judge of our Circuit Court for Putnam
County, to beheld in the town of Cook
eville, on the fourth Monday in Nov
ember, next, to make defense to said
bill, or the same will be proceeded with
and set for hearing ex parte as to her.
This September 11, 1911.
R. .E. L Pucffitt, -38-4t
Circuit Court Clerk.
ADVERTISEMENT for CREDITORS
To the Creditors of Guy Bohannon, deceased:
In obedience to an order made by the
Chancery Court at Cookeville, Tenn., in
the case of J. H. & C. P. Hunter, ad
ministrators, et al vs. A. M. Terry et
al, the creditors of Guy Bohannon, de
ceased, are hereby notified to have
themselves made parties to ea;d cause
by petition, and prove their claims
against said Bohannon on or before the
first Monday in November, 1911, or
they may be excluded trom the benefit
of said suit and from sharing in the as
sets of said Guy Bohannon deceased.
Said creditors and claimants are also
hereby notified that by an order of said
Court in said cause they and each of
them are enjoined from instituting any
suit against the said Guv Bohannon. de
ceased, or his admin it-U a Lots otherwise
than by petition in said pending cause;
and all parties now suing the said Guy
Bohannon, deceased, or his administra
tors are enjoined from proceeding in
their suits further than to judgment.
This July 10th, 1911.
V. E. Bockman,
ft Clerk and Master.
By Algood Carlen,
D, C. & M. jull3-nov2
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