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He Blew the Trump*Will A. Couchman, a famous character in Clark county, Kentucky, died recently. He was one of the keenest sportsmen in Eastern Kentucky, and his death recalls a memorable incident of one of his hunting trips.Couchman had been out all day, and after nightfall was tramping back home with two companions. Their way led by a church where there was a revival meeting going on. A powerful exhorter was in charge, and the mourners’ bench was crowded. Excitement was running high in the congregation, and the people were standing on the benches listening to the shouters. Couchman had forced his way up to the front, when an old woman came up the aisle, clapping her hands and shouting at the top of her voice. When she reached Couchman she threw her arms around his neck, exhorting him to be saved.Couchman was embarrassed, and became a good deal more so when, in the swaying she knocked out of his pocket a flask in which there was a little whisky. The old woman was an ardent advocate of temperance, and Mr. Couchman’s repuation was well known, so she at once began screaming that he had brought whisky to the meeting to aid the devil in his work. Angered and
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Railroad Telegrapher
St Louis, Missouri, US
Thu, Jun 01, 1905
Page 188
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