The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-01-13
RECORD Busters
They Made Th| |ings Hum During
the Past Year.
HIGH WATER MARX
Was Attained in Various Feats, Epi.
sades and Events Noted Through
cut the Country, Ranging from
Grave to Gay, from Lud.
icrous to Grotesque.
HIGH WATER MARX
icrous to Grotesque

The strenuous record smashers
made things hum during the year just
closed. The high water mark was
attained in various faats, episodes and
events noted throughout the country,
ranging from the grave to the gay
and from the ludlcrous to the gro
tesQue.
Chicago produced the prize villain,
a man who was accused in court by
his wife, sister aud employer With
desertlon, inGratitude, theft, lying
intemperance profanity and slcging
"Bedelia" when the neighf2rs wanted
to sleep. This champion simply fail
ed to live up TO his opportunities or
he might have posed as the, much
wanted Pat Grove and the man who
struck Billy Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won q medal
from his neighbors by having his wife
arrested for cruelty because she in
sisted on working phonoeraph over
time on the tormentlng air "Hiawa-
tha," in spite Of all protests.
In St. Louis q thirsty man drank
nine quarts OF whiskey in "a hours,
and died. Even the Prohibitionists
must now adrnit That run has some
value.
The classic town Of EvaDstown, the
seat OF Northwestern university, oe-
veloped the biggest pie eater Of the
year. Five thick, juicy pies a la
mode -smothered in ice cream de
voured at a single sitting vas the new
record set by Ed O'Laugbln in Il con-
test with LaWience English, who lost
by half pie.
But In the drinking line Harry e..
Vale Of EaglewCod, a Chicago suburb,
seems to have taken the lun.
He dlank up our bakery" said
Mrs. Vale, in her suit for divorce.
1t was a pretty big drink, but he
swallowed 1t N short Oroer."
Checks to saloon keepers arg~egat.
ing several thousand dollars showed
what that big drink had cost
An ambitious Missourian wrote
4O,OSS words on a postal card, lcat
in chirography almost IS difficult 10
achieve as would be sane cxplana-
tion as to why he did It,
During fire In New York hotel
a woman dressed herself IL less t4an
Is minutes. This r.cord Is likely to
stand for at least century.
NEW CHAMPIONS.
Percy T. Bennett ii : nan That
New Jersey JUDGES cali--,o champion
long distance pianist OF tic world
without waiting to hear from all Tie
young ladies who are pracJiclng Tie
Maiden's Prayer" In a Newark
theatre he battered out Farewell,
My Lady Love" and etc for "a ours
at a stretch, when compassionate
friends interfered and dragged min
home bodily though he tlregtan,
another explosion.
Ono hundred and ten tirocs in sever
years was the moving record OF tbt
Whelan family Of New York, ard a
moving tale 1t furnished IN a Harlem
court when Mrs Whelan testified
against her husband for non-support
and drew weird word pictures Of his
nomadic habits
Mr. Whe,an looked as il still anoth
er move would have cheercd bin IN
SON eWhat when size told the juGgc
the only way she could get money
from her rowing spouse was to take IL
out Of his trousers pockets while he
was asleep.
SOME { LID Pc rLE.
Moses a. Cleveland, said to be a
cousin Of the ey President set a rev
pace for cctOgenari3ns. At Worces-
ter, Mass, lie and another veteran OF
the Civil wa, each teing 50, lan a
half mile foJt race. Cleveland Won
the dash by several yarGN, and box
OF cigars into the bargain, whore
non he challenged any man OF his
with no takers, al
# the old boys