The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-01-10
AS UNEARTHED BY THE
YEAR JUST
CLOSED
RECORD MAKING FREAKS
How Home Was Broken Up
By Pancakes

Those who may think that life Is be-
coming unduly monotonous and that So
ciety is petrifying into a cold and
dreary Journalism should consider few
Of the odd events and the freak record
smashers Of 1905, as observed and set
down by the chroniclers OF the period.
The incidents cited are but samples
and might be multiplied indefinitely.
Who can be melancholy when such
things are gong on2
For instance. on one Of those rare
June davs that the poets tell about, a
Philadelphia woman wilied her sister
$3.50 on condition that she would always
allow their father 70 haze ''all the ci-
girs nc wants and also an the vests
he lskes 10 wear"
Pittsburg furnished several episodes
that livened things up a bit. a brave
wOnan In that city wore hoopskirts
through the ssreets, causing a crowd to
assemble which impeded traffic and had
to be dispersed by the police. Another
Pittsburg woman. finding that the tele-
phone company was preparing to string
wires about her house and had already
dug six holes for poles, became exceed
ingly wroth. Having six children, she
deposited child In each hole and thon
defied the workmen TO proceed.
Pancakes broke up an Iowa home in
the snappy days Of February when flap
jacks are supposed to hit the right spot.
At sanborn, Mrs. Carrie Fields got a
divorce from Dr. J.. s. Fields because
the husband dld not IKE her make OF
pancakes and ridiculed them. sae tes-
tilted that the expression on the doc
| tors face while eating the cakes was
such that It might wori< permanent In
/ jury TO her health.
The high water mark In family quar-
rels was reached ia Kansas City. one
raw January morning found Mrs. Tbs
resa schuJui and her husband John IN
the police court. where judicial aid was
invoked to saake John loose from his
domestic m5orings. Theresa had given
him 500 q leave her and never return
but he kept his promise only until the
money was spent Then the wife con-
aded to the court that she and John
were married in Germany fourteen years
ago and had auarreled every day since
which means total OF more than 5,oOC
qumrels.
The champion ice cream cater OF 1901
was not, as many might suppose, q sen
street car conductor Of Wesr Philadel
phia. a wager Of 81 and a Garganluai
appetite inspired Ray Vincent to tn
gastrononic feat OF hiding away ifieei
plates OF ice cream, pork sandwich
and a glass OF milk to top Off with, a.
within two hours and without a subse
quent funeral notice.
with a record Of having served NOR
, I ~ M nnn .4.f,,
, strstford hotel, Philadelphia, Tomas
, Ruggo, IN March, celebrated the twenty
third anniversary OF his employme1
r there. his drink checks figuring u
r ssli,9l5.
Il is wen known that a good deal
beer Is drnna Ia Munich at all time
3 but during an unusual hot wave in Ser
= tender the thlrsty inhabitsats OF IN.
city made a record The heat laste
a week. d,,ring which time $4,000 ga
: Ions Of beer were consumed or two nr
G one-half gallons for every man, woma
4 aud child in the city.
"The average length Of married II
seems to be two mpnths' remarS'
Judge Dunno, In March, when q job !
= of dIvorce eases was being disposed
in bis court This was before he W
a elected mayor Of Chicago,
on this same day eleven divorc
were granted BIZ three Cook ooun
: judges. includir. Judge dunno who Ia
! the largest grist IN The legal hopp'
= The average time consumed by the hea
= lngs which preeeden the issuance
n Tie DEGREES was eight minutes o
hearing only took three minutes. Thr
took only four minutes each. No mo
!, than fifteen minutes was devoted
any Of the eleven eases. Ihis was
divorce clearing house record that
bard to beat
"a Divorce so often being the sequen
4. OF marriage. this seems an opportn
point at which to Insert the ST. JOSEF