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WOMEN’S VERBAL BATTLE A DRAWTwo Cumberland Matrons Answer to Justice Court; Casep1! Attracted Attentione. i There was a hot old time in Cum-K*;berland last Friday night, which wa ** attended by the entire local popula-•n 1 tion, and would have been a drawing I I card at all poinU in this vicinity had it been possible to give an adequate . advance announcement of the spicy bill of fare.i Mrs. Roumunk and her next-door neighbor. Mrs. Jetkoski, have not for some time dwelt in the state of peace p’ and harmony, which is enjoined by the t i Scriptures; in fact, there have at nu-rtl! merous and sundry times been ‘words’ 0f passed between them over the back fence which cannot be here repeated, for the reason that this newspaper must pass through the mails and conform to the strict rules of the post-u-»g•h office department.mAll this had smoldered along and jlj finally led up to a climax, when the ,(| two ladies met at the water tap in (j the back yard and each, in her own ’-c modest way attempted Hi tell the *e, other just what she thought of her. so i,f that there could be no possible mis-il understanding.This display of verbal pyrotechnics it was heard from afar, but as neither % one used a megaphone, anyone living •t more than four blocks away missed a j. great deal of the debate, i Tt was the general opinion of thi bystanders thqt the bout was a draw, i) as aside from the strain suffered by 1, 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 rj complaint charging Mrs. Jetkoski with •- “criminal provocation.” which accord-c ing to a legal tome, constitutes breach e of the peace.it She despatched her husband to n Kemmerer for legal reinforcements, il and Attorney J. W. Summon was s taken back to look after the interests d of the Roumunks. arriving in time to I, hear the case called before Justice -S of the Peace Peter Boam of Cumbcr-land No. 2. s The trial drew like a mustard plaster, notwithstanding the weather, the f impending strike or anything else o In the official proceedings. English ** wus a dead language. The judge •. j however, seemed to savvy a groat dcil *1 of the conversation, for he proved ( r - himself a wise and just judge, in fact, t he broke into the King Solomon class, s for after hearing all the unexpurgated evidence, he, like the jurist of old, split the pot, and divided the costs.The latter, amounting to $24.80.J were divide ! equally between the belligerents and cuch was told to go home and sin no more.
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The Kemmerer Republican
Kemmerer, Wyoming, US
Fri, Oct 31, 1919
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