The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-20
SAW SANDY BOTTOM
Graphic Description of the Play al
PIainview.

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A. E. Smalley in Plainview News:
We saw SANDY Bottom" at the opera
house last Thursday evening, and
while the play was not as deep as
Sappho or as hair-raising as Othello,
it was fully worth the price of admis-
sion, especially if one had compli-
mentary ticket-as we did The cur
tain came up and the first scene pic
tured a mountain saloon and the pro-
prietor. The proprietor had a daugh-
ter that was pretty as a picture and
all the toughs and hoboes in the noun
tains tried to win her heart and hand
but she was not as easy as some of
the girls around Plainview and spurn-
ed them all. Col. Jed Carter was the
villain, and by some hook or crook
he was elected mayor of Sandy Bottom
with a much larger majority than Ed.
| Pulcifer was elected assessor of Pierce
county. Carter had a bad criminal
record and we were itching to see him
go to the penitentiary, but his pal,
Amos Brandy, kept him out of 1T.
Amos was another scoundrel of the
first water, and he was just mean
enough to want to ruin that innocent
little girls life by marrying her-and
he even went so far as to publicly
announce that he would kill her If she
refused to become his wife. BY dad,
we felt like sticking Frank Tepner onto
him, but just as he was going to pro-
pose, the choir at a nearby Methodist
church began to sing and the sweet
strains inspired the saloon keeper and
his daughter and they resolved to lead
better lives, while Grandby went away
| in a corner to think up some more
devilishness. He was afraid the sa-
loon-keeper would be converted, so he
had the honorable mayor slip up be-
hind the minister and stab him in the
back then both laid it onto the saloon
keeper and he was imprisoned, but
tourist happened along and left his
kodak sitting on a soap box, and just
as the mayor was about to stab the
good preacher, Mother Lyttleton de-
seconded the mountain, picked up the
kodak and took picture of the awful
scene just as the mayor run corn
knife through the preacher. Blood
ran down the street three inches deep
and a funeral occurred next day in
which the minister figured prominent
lily. Moonshiners in the Ozarks then
secured rooms of Mother Lyttleton and
used them as a secluded spot to get
drunk and kill each other. The may
or and Grandby were members OF this
gang, and one night Grandby sent for
the girl to come up there, and he
would help her free her father" The
little girl went out in the storm,
climbed the mountain for seven miles
and became so weak in the knees that
she fell helplessly at the door of Moth
err Lyttleton, who took her in, told her
she had been trapped by that drunken
villain, pleaded with her to go hence.
In came that ornery cuss known as
Grandby and tried to make love to
that sweet little maid She plucked
up her courage, stood erect, and with
flushed cheeks she politely bade him
ego to -" He became enraged,
|
ing to stab her in the back. We were
in hopes sheriff Dwyer would step out
from behind the ledge and take him,
but Ed was playing smear with attor-
ney Mcdonald and surely didn't know
what was going on. Mother Lyttleton
drew an AK on Grandby and said II he
stuck that cheese knife into Sue New
som, she would spatter his brains all
over the Ozarks. We wanted to say
hurrah for the old lady, but didn't for
fear of being attended to by the bounc-
err. The young tourist then appeared
upon the scene. He loved Sue and
wanted to marry her and at different
times had expressed his love by kiss
ing her right in broad daylight, and
we didn't blame him bit, and II we
had the chance-oh, fudge, we're mar
ried, so what's the use. Just then a
trio of masked men stepped around
the corner and pointed guns as big as
stove pipes at the young fellow.
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