The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-15
Odd Happenings of 1911
SOME OF THE STRANGE AND INTERESTING EVENTS OF NEAR
JUST CLOSING AS RECORDED IN THE NEWSPAPERS

the sole benefit Of the late owners
twelve venerable horss. with instruc-
tions that another, draft animal should
be added to the benefciarics on the
death of my of the originals. to the
end that the dozen might be steadily
maintained.
England once more comes forward
story from Wyeombe. where lives
Joseph Love In March he missed
a cat he had just purchased from n
Huntingdonshire dealer, and as the
days passed with no news OF puss he
came to the conclusion h had heen
stolen. But as May was drawing to
a close a word reached him that the
its old home. Ninety miles in sixty
days is not bad walking for such a
pedestrian.
About that same time owen Peter
sen Of 1T. Collins, Col. walked a score
Of miles to pay q druggist a penny,
confessing he had stolen a postal card
when last in his store.
1t vas love. not conscience, which
prompted Mrs. Martha Williams Of
Springfield. Mo-, to walk 200 miles to
Kansas City. for she had been led to
believe a husband was there waiting
for her. Walter tewart by name. When
she arrived. and when Walter refused
to abide by their understandings. she
had him arrested and fined. So she
was able to take the cars for her
home journey.
1t was a different type Of a mar who
welded MISC Gertrude Ellis in Chi
cago late in September, making her
Mrs. Edward Matt. To avoid future
domestic infelicity he filed with the
county recorder q guarantee. signed
and sealed. that Gerty might do as she
pleased, and that he would be kind
and good. and tiastly) that she was
to be free to get any divorce that
might eventually seem advisable.
G. l. Stevens. a wealthy ranch own
er not far from Los Angeles is yet
another rarely good fellow, for he let
1t be known in June that he would
lmarry-not only an ugly woman: ugly
that is to look pon. The kids and
pretty girls get hitchsd up too easy"
was his way of explaining things, so
I'm proposing to help out some good
soul who'll appreciate the chance"
Whether Turner Lockhart would
have proved a desirable husband for
Mary Goode or not will v be
known, however. They had got fairly
started on their elopement from VIM
chester, Va. when father overlook
them. and the promise Of a new hat
persuaded Mary to so back home and
leave Turner to look further.
A final item Of not dissimilar sort
arrived in March when it was an
nounced that the daughter Of Judas
1scarot was to mary the son of Pom
thus Plate OF course. reference was
made to two Of the Oberammergau
actors.
New Jersey has become almost as
dependable as Kansas as a manufac-
turer of bizarre happenings, so that
I. is not hard to find among the years
gatherings of this sort another quar-
tet from h mosquito state which
furnished those with which the
twelve month opened. And two have
matter. Frank - Di is,''1 furnished the
and Nathan Rtskin the other.
with Trenton and Passais the respec-
tive towns of issue. Frank said he
was in love with Marie Bosenay and
she SO genuinely r~eciprocated his at
fections that she had gone on record
as being ready to shoot him IL he so
much as cooled in his attentions. On
the other hand, Bosenay, senior, had
said he'd shoot him IL he came round
avn more. So Frank asked the police
for the answer. Nathan's courtship
prospered: the only detail deserving
notice there was that he upset tradi-
ton by substituting for the conven-
ttonal solitaire ring = set of poetry.
It vas also a little worth the COM
ment that his choice of volumes
ranged down the scale from Hugo to
Jack London. 80
Mt. Holly and Paterson furnished
the other two kilograms. Jacob
G%reenberg of the former place. was
arrested for cruelty to q horse. In
default Of $50 and costs he went to
jail but hardly had he begun his SEN
fanNa uyhan Nwo TNr4AaNn~- N-~>>.~l
with the requisite funds. The news
o THAT upset the prisoners reason
and he Is now In the state asylum for
he insane. Fourteen-year-old Louise
Holzer Of "the silk CITY," has gone
Ajax sveral better. A ball of lightning
entered her home during a June thun-
derstorm. but as it passed the girl she
kicked IL so %viciously as to put it out
of bushes without SO much as seri-
ously injuring ever her shoe. which
was scarcely scorched. This tale is
vouched for by the father, J.. NJ. Hol-
Ger, who is pastor Of an Evangelical
church.
With that electric storm as preface,
something is. Of course. to be said Of
the 1911 weather: when not? In the
July hot spell h items came thick
and fast. Some apples on Frank
Sparin's farm. a bit north Of Brock
port, N Y. for instance, were nicely
baked on the stem. Then q Vineland,
N. j.. gentleman. H. B. Hudson by
name. had the sun to thank for COM
pleting the Matching out Of a bakers
dozen Of chicken eggs which the
mother had deserted on account Of the
humidity. Thirdly (this from Column
bus, 1nd..) the eggs laid in the nests
owned by H.. l.. Rost were all quite
purplish-presumably from the heat.
ont the Kentleman's name. for this
never happened beforehand, finally,
the high climbing mercury in Chicago
extinguishers in a big department
store. For long minutes the food
gates themselves seemed open till the
half-drenched employees could get at
the stop cocks.
But, after all, little GAINESVILLE made
these look pale and insipid. The fol-
lowing came in from the mother Of
When standing on the Y bridge,
probably h hottest place in the
county, Guy Stevens wal struck by
glass from a thermometer which ex-
rloded from the heat. Guy vas COM
inenting on the fact that the tube reg
istered 100 degrces-when 1t Just went
off,. k 1t was mad at him for talk
ing So"
Lies little ironies with fate COL
laborating. have several times or late
made odd appearance. Think of
Venice suffering from a water famine.
yet that happened In July. Think of
a vicar not allowed to sing in the
services ne conducted: yet no less thar
that happened to a Sutherland (Eng-
landI worthy whose choir threatened
TO leave en- masse unless he stopped
spelling Gas they put itl their very
best efforts. Such events are really
surprising. but that word is scarcely
in place in writing that President