The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-17
iDloTIC ELECTION BETS.
Day of Reckoning at Hand. Strange
and Humorous Wagers.

presidential ticket must be atoned for.
The time for allowing your whiskers
to sprOut, shave your mustache, al
low your best girl to kiss another
fellow, push a wheelbarrow with
tin horn blowing republican behind
it, make a horse of yourself and pull
a wagon, give up your money, horses
or clothing as the case may be, roll
in the mud or stand on your head-it
is all up to you now.
At Upton. Ind, local character
lions that are not so easily salts
fed, and here is how some of them
will have to be settled:
At Upton, Ind, local character,
known as the sleeping statesman is
to stand in the court house yard,
strip to the skin and in twenty-min-
ute speech deliver the wearing APP
parel taken oif to the republican who
won the wager. Rather cold job
for the IS. ST." isn't it?
At Anderson, Ind, prominent
young society girl, whose heart
lies buried beneath the landslide,
bet a gentleman friend that
if Bryan was defeated she would pei
ambulate around the public square in
mans attire All the young sports
in that city are losing sleep watch
ing for her.
In Peekskill, N. y, a saloonkeeper
will play horse and haul a Mckinley
admirer all over the principal streets.
He will wear horse collar and har-
ness and will draw the buggy in
which the winner of the wager will
be seated.
At Athens, Ga, democrat is to sit
himself on cake of ice and remain
there while republican shaves him
with a corn knife.
A prominent and wealthy citizen
of Dayton, Ohio, must roll across the
street in the muddiest part and in
his best clothes to pay a Bryan bet.
Two Kentuckians made a wager Of
cash and the winner is to spend his
Mckinley winnings in a good old
Kentucky way. (This is what is con-
sidered a square bet)
A man at Peoria, H., is to be
headed" up in a barrel and rolled
four squares, because he bet on
Bryan.
At Bradford, Pa, man is to roll
a peanut with a toothpuck from the
edge of the city, to a saloon and then
set EN- up to the crowd. Of course
he bet on Bryan-and in Pennsyl-
vana.
At small town in Kansas a farm
er must husk all of his neighbors
corn between now and Thanksgiving
and then furnish the turkeys for din
ner.
A resident of Susquehanna county,
dation of an election bet. A party
of friends gathered at his house,
where Grape was put on the door and
a coffin stood in the funeral ROOM
Black garments were worn by every
guest and the democrat was placed
in the coffin, each man present was
given candle and the procession
started for grave, a short distance
| away. A drizzling rain was falling
and the Pickering Ign. made a ghost
ly scene. Arriving beside grave
dug in the woods the coffin contain
ing Bryan's defender, was lowered in
the hole and the party dispersed. The
man who lost the wager was permit
ted to regain the surface as best he
could. He said the feeling was not
pleasant, but it agreed with the
frame of mind he had experienced
since the election.
At Goshen, Ind, two youths pur-
chased a nickels worth of candy
beans about eighty, and deposited
at the post office, agreeing that t,.e
loser should carry all the beans, one
az q lilllc W Tie NOME Oh the Otnef.
At st. Louis two young lady clerks
ended political argument by agree
ing that the one whose favorte can
didate should lose would parade a
prominent street. dressed in some
thing grotesque. The one who lost
dressed in the styles OF one hun
dred years ago and came near being
arrested for insanity.
medical student attending Rush
Medical College at Chicago swan a
stream four times to pay an election
bet.
| Trenton, n. J.,merchant was led
through the streets behind cart
with halter around his neck.
A young lady at Hartford, Conn.
prominent in society, rolled ped
nut five squares by the light of lam
terms carried by college students. She