The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-01-31
Bad medicine in Big Doses.

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1t come to pass along in the Christmas
and New Year times last year that Bob
Brittenham and Miss Net Singleton
went and got married. Now the Brit
tenham boys are famous in this country
for coverin all the ground and travellin
all the gaits. Everything from scrub
horse race to free-for-all fight goes
with them. They are all bad medicine
and tremendous big doses of it.
1t had only been three weeks to the
day since Bob and Miss Net got married
when the Brittenham boys went to
horse race somewheres down in the Flat
Woods and got into free and bloody
| fight with the Tomlinsons, which the
Tomlinson boys they was also hot stuff
and whole passle of it.
That was one horse race which I
didn't GO and see, whereas / can't give
all the facts and wherefores in regards.
to the terrible scrape between the Brig
tenhams and the Tomlinsons. But at
any rates, it seems like when the firin
ceased and the smoke cleared away
three of the Tomlinson boys had got
bad wounded and Bob Brittenham was
dead.
In them days it likewise also come to
pass that the finest plantation on Deer
Creek belonged to Bob Brittenham in
his own full name, and accordin to the
will he had made before he married the
plantation would belong to his wife
when he was dead and gone, so long as
she lived, and then fall to their chill
dren when she died.
And by gatlins Bob Brittenham hadn't
been dead ten days before the other
Brittenham boys put in to buy Bob's
widder off and git their fingers on that
fine plantation. They lowed under the
will she couldn't claim nothin but her
lifetime interest, and since Bob didn't
leave no children the land would finally
at last revert back to his brothers any
how. They wanted to buy her out and
pay her what was right and proper for
her lifetime interest in the plantation.
In the mainline Miss Net, Bob's
widder, had went back to live with her
mother, and I knowed good and we'll
that when the game come down to a
pinch it would lay between the Britten-
ham boys on one side and the old lady
Singleton on the other. There was
;ome powerful fine pints in the game,
and whilst it was none of my business
couldn't help from watchin the ''docu
ments" clost and constant.
One Woman's Business Sense.
''It is monstrous pritty game II the
cards will but only run right" says / to
GGn
there is plenty of nerve on both sides.
But as for me. will give odds of three
to one and bet on the old lady Singleton. |
If the Brittenham boys didn't have to |
buck agin nobody on the other side but |
Bobs widder they maybe mought beat
her out. Miss Net is young in regards |
to the ways of this world anyhow, and
besides that her heart is broke now on
account of poor Bob's death.
''But the old lady Singleton she amt
gone nowheres, and If / recollect right
she put off her widder's weeds more
han twenty years ago. When it comes
to a strong and knotty business pint she
has got more sense than most any man |
I have ever saw, and she can see further
on ahead into the dim and distant future |
than any other old lady in the round |
created world. Accordin to my fgura-
ton, for oncst the Brittenham boys |
have met their match. Let the game |
go bravely on. We can wait and watch |
and see.''
That was in the Christmas and New |
Year times last year, and | didn't know
for certain how the Brittenham boys |
had come out of the game till one day |
last week. But then got some news |
from over there in the hill country |
which goes to show that they got beat |
at every pint, whilst the old lady Sim
gleton win the game hands down.
From what the hill country people |
say, it would seem like the old lady |
soon got so she wouldn't let Bob's wild /
der talk to the Brittenham boys about |
that plantation on Deer Creek. When |
they come to see their brothers wilder
the old lady she would go ont and do
the talkin and keep Miss Net busy in
the kitchen. AS time went on the Brit
tenham boys got restless and mad and
threatened to go to law with the case.
But the old lady told 'em they could
pop their whips and pitch in. You have
heard people say that time IL mighty
good lawyer, and old Misses Singleton
she vas playing FOR tins,
It now comes TO psss that there Ia