The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-07
JIbl SMITH
LONE STAR PAYS TRIBUTE OF
LOVE AND ESTEEM iTo3FoR.
MER;FELLoW-ToWNs-4

!. MANI X = Va
RlvEsyn.LE, oct. 7.-RIyesville
really has no right to butt into Fair
/ mont or Evansville business but bust
ness has come to such a pitch at This
fast and floating age that an ildlvll.
ual. a single indIridaak can scarcely
be affected without a whole communI.
lily and almost the whole nation feel.
ing the effects more or less direct or
indirect, as the public will note what
the little trouble down in the Bell.
view and Evansville section between
two men have caused.
1t has caused the highest tyne OF
law and law talent to be brought into
action.
1t has caused the leading lawyers
of the county and country in general
TO come in contact with each other.
1t has cdused railroad men, farmers
and citizens to ponder. mediate ami
some would dictate. but when they
found out that 1t vas our own Jim
Smith who was figuring so conspfcu.
ously we. all said. nay. verify, and 9TH
er things.
Some said Bulldog Jim would take
care OF himself; some said Banjo Jirl
would get there some way; others said,
well. II It is Butcher Jim. they'd bet.
ter look out. Some said that 1t was
HuNter Jim: Others said, could it be
that 1t was our Jim. the regular RIves.
Vile Jim and when It was decided
that II was that settled 1t.
We all know the gentleman referred
to by all the above names and some
others also. The women down here
used to call him Dandy Jim and he
goes by that name yet. when he IS
good.
jim was good neIghbor. Never
was there a more clever fellow than
he. Once upon time the Lone Star
had typhoid fever and when he began
10 get better a friend sent him two
gallon jug OF hard cider to tone un
his stomach on, SO he could cat grub.
Jim heard OF 1t and being lover of
cider as we'll as friend to the pa.
tient he got a large cabbage head,
big soup bone and some other eatubles
and paid the sick man a visit, jim
induced the man to eat soup and caI-
bege, thinking that It would not hurt
him. The man drank soma cider too.
I!m drank 20 the sick mans health
Until !hta cider was gone. The result
was the man got backset and had to
lie in bed month longer. 1t wes
blue hard cider and Jim got - rs
an owl, but We parted good friends
and IRE friends yet.
We are sorry 10 know that our
friend jim Is IN the limelleht but hope
he viii ca,he oat all right and be good
AS 10 hrs figured in various lines Of
business AMI was always counted on
as an Industrious fellow and while
the D. and 0. 4. R. has hundreds Of
COOL men they can justly count Mr..
Smith as one OF them. He is at pres
ent fireman on steam engine in
the FnirmoRt yards.
We give few hints OF Jin's history
and call II
Poetry In the Rough.
Jim, the butcher. he hateheFed for life,
1t was very lean, bony old brute that
escaped his big knife.
He butchered by day and he butcher
ed By night.
And he hutohered Till he butchered
himself clear out of sight.
Jim was huxter and travelled down
the line.
And with plenty Of snuff,
And ways that were fine.
All the old women they thought him
the stuff.
Jim he took sick and to Cooks Hos
pital went;
Now, Jim. says DR.. Cook, there's
rules here 10 obey.
And them II sou don't you'll sorely
repent,
And in bed a long zine you viii lay.
But Jim thought not,
And when the doctor went out
In less than FIVE minutes out OF bel
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