The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-13
SISTER SUES WEDDING.
Jimmy Tries His Printing Press on His
Sisters Wedding Invitations.

s Jimmy Tries His Printing Press on H
5 Sisters Wedding Invitations.
She ought to have been married
! long while ago. That's what everybod
says as knows her. She has been engage
, to Mr.. Travers for three years and sh
had to refuse lots of offers to go to tn
, circus with other young men. l hav
wanted her to get married so that | cou.t
! 60 and live with her aud Mr.. Travers
When l think that if it hadn't been FOR
mistake 1 made she would have beer
married yesterday, l fud it dreadfully
hard to he resi- gned. But we ought al
ways to be resigned to everything wher
we can't help it. Before 60 any furthe
l must tell about my printing press. Il
belonged to Tommy McGinnis, but he
got tired Of it and sold it to me real cheap
He was going to write to the Young Pso
PIES post-office box and offer to exchange
it for a bicycle, St. Bernard dog, and
twelve good books, but he finally let me
have it for dollar and half 1t prints
beautifully, and have printed cards for
ever so many people, and made three
dollars and seventy cents already.
thought it would be nice to be able to
print circus bills in case Tom and I
should ever have another circus, so l sent
to the city and bought some type more
than an inch high, and some beautiful
yellow paper.
Last week it was decided that Sue and
Mr.. Travers should be married without
waiting any longer. You should have
seen what state ofmind her and mother
were in. They did nothing but buy new
clothes, and sew and talk Of the wedding
all day long. She was determined to be
married in church, and to have six
bridesmaids and six bridegrooms, and
flowers, aud music, and things till you
couldn't rest. The only thing that
troubled her was making up her mind
who to invite. Mother wanted to invite
Mr.. and Mrs. McFadden and the seven
McFadden girls; but Sue said they had
insulted her, and she couldn't bear the
idea of inviting the McFadden tribe.
Everybody agreed that old Mr.. Wilkin-
son, who once came to party a. our
house with one boot and one slipper,
couldn't be invited; but it was decided
that every one else that was on good
terms with the family should be invited.
She counted up all the people she maent
to invite, and there were nearly three
hundred of them. You would hardly
believe it but she told me I must carry
around all the invitations and deliver
them myself. OF course could not do
this without neglecting my studies and
loosing time, which is always precious,
so thought of plan which would save
Sue the trouble Of directing three hun.
dred invitations and save me from vast.
ing time delivering them. I got to work
with my printing press and printed a
dozen splendid big bills about the we'd
ding. When they were printed l cut a
lot Of small pictures of animals and ladies
riding on horses out of some old circus
bills, and pasted them on the wedding
bills. They were perfectly gorgeous,
and you could see them four or five rods
of. When they were all done, I made
some paste in tin pail and went out
after dark and pasted them in good places
all over the village. The next afternoon
\ father came into the house looking very
stern, and carrying one OF the wedding
, hills in his hand. He banded it to
usan and said:
.rSusan, what does this mean? These
bls are pasted all over the village, and
the are crowds of people reading
the"
s. read the bill and then she gave an
awfa shrek and tainted away, and l
hurrlN down to the post.office to see If
me Mi had come. This was on the
!, oili, az I am sure il was spelled all
right:
Miss Sus.l Brown announces that she will
! Arry Mr.. James Travers
az the chuih next Thursday at 7.5O sharp.
All ts Friends of the Family,
r ,,,, Nth the exception Of
Mcf adden Gbe and old Mr.. Wilkinson,
r * are invited.
, CoAe early and bring
Its of flowers.
Now, what Ns there to find fault with
IN that? 1t wa printed beautifully and
every word wasspelled right, with the
, exception of thtname of the church,
f and L wasn't quit sure how to spell it.
F., The bill saved s. all the trouble of
f sending out inVitatius, and tsaid every.
3 thing tnat anybody (ould want to know
+ about the wedding. ANY other girl but
! sue would have been leased, and would
have thanked me for ny trouble, but she
, was as angry as if 1 hal done something
real bad. Mr.. Traven was almost as
angry as sue, aud it was the first time
, he was ever angry with me. am afraid
now ne wont ever let me come and live
with him. He hasn't said a word about
my coming since the wedding bills were
put up. AS for The wedding il has been
put of, and Sue .ays she viii 90 to New
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