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; WOMEN’S VERBAL t BATTLE A DRAWI- _Two Cumberland Matrons An-ek swer to Justice Court; Case Attracted Attentione i _£I There was a hot old time in Cum-j* berland lost Friday night, which wai* attended by the entire local population, and would have been a drawingcard at nil point* in this vicinity ha(i ( it been possible to give an adequate . advance announcement of the spicy i bill of fare.i Mrs. Roumunk and her next-door ’ neighbor. Mrs. Jetkoski, have not for* some time dwelt in the state of peace and harmony, which is enjoined by the’ | Scriptures; in fact, there have at nu-4j i merous and sundry times been ‘words’ tf passed between them over the hack fence which cannot be here repeated, for the reason that this newspaper e « must pass through the mails and con-« form to the strict rules of the post-1, office department.All this had smoldered along and ,j finally led up to a climax, when the :j two ladies met at the water tap in ,j the back yard and each, in her own c modest way attempted Hi tell the , other just what she thought of her, so that there could he no possible mis-understanding.This display of verbal pyrotechnics t was heard from afar, but as neither » one used a megaphone, anyone living t more thnn four blocks away missed a . great deal of the debate.It was the general opinion of the bystanders thqt the bout was a draw.) as aside from the strain suffered by the vocal chorda, there had been no ’ physical violence, but one of the con-., testants was not satisfied, this being Mrs. Roumunk, and she swore to a- complaint charging Mrs. Jetkoski with- “criminal provocation.” which accord- ing to n legal tome, constitutes breach » of the peace.She despatched her husband to i Kemmerer for legal reinforcements,I and Attorney J. W. Summon was ; taken back to look after the interests I of the Roumunks. arriving in time 1o , hear the case called before Justice i of the Peace Peter Boam of Cumberland No. *2.The trial drew like a mustard plus- , ter, notwithstanding the weather, the impending strike or anything else » In the official proceedings. English was a dead language. The judge however, seemed to savvy a great doil ' of the conversation, for he proved |' himself a wise and just judge, in fact, \ he broke into :he King Solomon class. | ■ for after hearing all the unexpurgated (« evidence, lie, like the jurist of old, split the pnt, and divided the coats, iThe latter, amounting to $24.80. ; 1 were divide 1 equally between the bel- 1 ligerents and cuch was told to go J homo and sin no more.
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The Kemmerer Republican
Kemmerer, Wyoming, US
Fri, Oct 31, 1919
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