Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-13
BALD HEADED CLUB.
HIGH Old TIME AT TUE MEETING
FRIDAY NIGHT
Several Important Matters Discussed aud
An Ovation rendered TO Ex-President
Howell

ed Club whei
he called the meeting to order Frida.
night at the usual hour
The President was little late il
arriving, as he had experienced som
difficulty in getting permit to sta,
out until the late hour at which tn
meeting was held. He come in though
with the air of man who has carried
his point and called the meeting t
order.
The Colonels were scattered abou
the room in little squads discussing
the Murray convention and did not no
ticed the hardness of the President
until he wrapped for order with a
piece of wrapping paper.
Then all was attention while the
minutes we're read and adopted as
"ours," as Col. Chess Pyle facetiously
remarked.
After calling Col. Dave Wiley's at
tention to the fact that the stove was
not spittoon, President Cooper ask
ed his son.in law, Col. John Chappell,
who is better posted on such matters
than his name would indicate, to ex-
plain to the club the recent great tri
u nph scored by bald headed man,
in the fistic arena.
Col. Chappell appeared to be
little bashful 40 he came forward to
make his maiden speech. He walked
to the front and lost no time in plung-
ing into a graphic description of the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, which was
held since the clubs last meeting.
COL Bill BAN berger wanted to
know if the Corbctt who Fitzsimmons
was the same one who fit Sullivan.
Col. Bdmberger was severely and
promptly punished for his freshness.
He Was sentenced to spend one hour
in listening to Col, Buck Leavell tell
jokes.
Col Chappells description of the
round when Fig punched
Jim in the neighborhood of his bread
b lsket and curled him up in the cor
ner was so realistic that Col. Shorty
Ort involuntarily began whistling
THE Blow Almost Killed Father"
His account Of the collapse of the
great champion when he realized that
he had been licked by a "blasted
Englishm an" was pathetic in the ex-
tremo. The distressing details caus.
ed tiers to rise one above the OF her in
Col. Claggett's tobacco barn.
Col. Bob Woodbridge said the only
consoling feature about the defeat of
Jim Corbett was that he wore pompa-
dour hair and that he was whipped
by baldheaded man.
On motion of Col Walter Kelly the
Robert Fitzcorbett was
elected an emery member of the club
With the title of Colonel. 1t was dis
covered afterwards that Col. Kelly's
ignorance of sporting matters had led |
Tim into slight mistake in the cham
lions name, but it was then too late
o change the records.
Col. Joe Twyman, who is selling
Just Oil in the flood districts of
'exas, telegraphed his proxy to
)ol. George Randle, with Instructions
D vote against any motion made by
,ol. Buck Leavell.
Col. Lew Atkinson rose to inquire
hat had caused all of the cities and
owns in Ohio and other States to go
President Cooper said liz his opin-
IN it was way the people had of re
uking President Mckinley for fail
ng to put bald headed man in his
abinet.
COL Henry Alternately proposed
hat collection be taken up for the
eneft of the people of Hopkinsville
Tho are unable to buy strawberries
$l,25 a gallon. While the hat was
eng passed around Col. Burch Bias
stt asked Col. Bill Cooper, who sells
,uits and vegetables, to explain the
of having the bottom of
uart box of Strawberries an inch
ON the bottom and a half inch thick.
Col. Cooper said Col. Bassett ought
, organize his mouth into a cork-us
nd measure his own yardstick. He
$50 called his attention to the fact
lat Jno. d. Rockefeller has amassed a
asst fortune and is still making money
y attending to his own business.
While these little pleasantries were
eng INDUCED in great commotion
as heard on the outside.
Cheers rent the air, music was
lHoVNIs This?