Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-04-02
IDLE THOUGHTS.


ments, also the groom's gift,were dia-
mond and pearl brooch and a necklace
Of beaded pearls. The bridesmaid
wore blue organdie and at her throat a
pearl brooch, another of the grOom's
gifts After the ceremony recherche
wedding breakfast was served at the
residence of the brides parents and
later the happy couple took their de-
parture on horseback, amid a
shower Of rice and slippers, for the
charming home Mr.. Smith has pre-
pared for his bride on his stock ranch.
The event was the most brilliant in
Boomville society in many months"
BQomville was the county seat and
as such the object of jealousy. Twen-
ty miles away there was hotel and
blacksmith shop, a flag station and
saloons which called itself a city
and had the ambition to be incor-
porated. 1t claimed to be the logi-
cal county seat and lost no oppor
tunity of digging at Boomville.
The paper there was edited by a
tramp printer who had induced the
leading citizens to invest, in a
Washington hand press anda stock
of old type to enable the tramp
printer to have an excuse for remain
ing and imbibing all the free whisky
he could negotiate. This was his
account of the affair:
"a BOoMvlLLE LANDMARK GONE"
"Over at Boomville the other night
there were doiu's. 'Slivers, the at
tenuated daughter of that wind bag
Jones who runs an apology for hotel,
was married to Charley Smith and that
dude Englishman who runs the Bugle
and owes Jones a board bill tried to
make the affair fashionable like they
do it in England. The sky pilot, Tai
bot Champenys, who has just arrived
from dear old Lunnon to join the edi-
torial dude in working the good people
of Boom county, tied the knot. Sill
vers,' as the bride is best known on
account of her slimnesS, although she
answers always to the name of Sadie
to the boarders at her fathers hash
factory, wore a white dress cut SO low
as to show her neck bones. She carried
big bunch of yellow gorZe blooms,
the only flower they can grow in that
God forsaken southern end of the
country, and her mother had rugged up
out of cheeseclOths makeShlft for a
VEIL Charley had bought her brouch
from that peddler who was round week
before last and he gave her string OF
white beads which she thought we're
pearls. Emmeline, the little fat sister
who waits on the end table and does
chamber work at the hotel, was the
bridesmaid The best man was that
dude editor of the Bugle and would
you believe it? he was logged up in
full-dress clawhammer Suit-white shirt
and all Just as he unpacked them from
his box which he bought from Eng
land Old Martha Browning, who
used to play the piano back in the SOS,
tried to make the people thinks she was
stunning something like wedding
march on the wheezy parlor organ old
Jones sent over from the hotel. The
father of the bride, old JONES' left bar
long enough to put on his best
buds and give his daughter away and
he looked mighty uncomfortable in a
black suit borrowed for the occasion.
After the hockey pokey business at the
church the whole gang went back to
the hotel and had feed in the dining
room, at which corned beef and cab
bage was the principal item. OldJones
turned himself loose with the hard stuff
and in less than an hour everybody
was feeling good. About IL o'clock
Sadie and her husband, started out for
the shack he has built at Lone Tree
Gulch. They say she fell off her
horse times in the miles. 'Slivers'
will be missed by visitors to the coun-
ty seat who have listened to her beef
steak, mutton chop, ham and eggs, for
the last 20 years..
There was another paper IN the
county edited by young fellow
who had been raised on the bunch
grass and had picked up type stick
ing by hanging around the print
shop. He had a humorous turn and
this is how he described the affair:
"sLIvERs RoPED THE COLT"
"Slivers of the Boomville hotel who
has had her lariat ready to throw over
the neck of the first fellow who was