The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-07-11
B1M GLAD


4 1.hs eto1 s irnllanis1 llle1ras =
slow town. Al ders said 80, and
its citizens readflg Ihitted It
srhere - e need for hnstei
tnaGrahamsKfiie.s E'plks died there nov
ana then, but there was always lots Of;
time forhoidfng tia funerai.
when this slow and Conservative.
state 81 affairs had con tinned for many
vearsss the II idoVR Camelon struck the
town. and sfr1alz.i g hard.
THE widow Cameron EIaB forty years
old and tail and aHboped She had
n decisive, commanding way with her-s
she was business. She might have
come from Australia or town only
twenty miles away.
Inst what the Widow Cameron was.
.roiug4to do was soon publi property.
She had an acre4of groqnd with the
house, and she put 40 chickens as
work scratching mp the. soil and tive.
incubators;w working overtime. She built
har own coops and wire fences.
a roar went up.
There had been q time II, the history
OF Graaan1sHtlle when every house
holder had his chickens and his har2
vest OF eggs. but the growing OF roost-
ers had awakened the people hours
ahead OF time. and by common consent
all fowls had been, banished- No crows;
nor clucks nor cackIes for the past ten
years, and here was the Widow CAM
eron Breeding thousands Of them:
Something must be done
Squire johnson must wait on her
and tell her she can't keep chickens.
-
as he started for the widows house TO-
lay down the rules to her
"oh, / can't, chr" she replied TO his
oratory.
"No. madam. we are very strict on
You and the rest Of the folks can
go to grass"
one of the ministers called TO wres,
tie with her. She held the door against
him while he said:
MADAM, our good people are very
much exercised over the fact, the
.sThat am raising chickens" she
finished. '.Well. you tell your good
people that ,if they say much more
will sell my fowls and so to raising
slsunks FOR their fur and tleg'
Not another objection came from q
citizen. No one was hankerlng to ex,-
change chickens for skunks.
IL they kept no hens in Grahams-
Vile they did keep hogs and cows.
The animaIs could run at large ana
feed themselves. The Widow Gamer
on gave public notice through the
county paper that the owner OF any
hog or COW that trespassed upon her
property would hear something drop
.She can't mem itr men said to
each other. why. our animals have
always run at large"
Mr.. Scher1nerhorn's COW broke her
| way in one night. and atdaylight she
heard something drop. 1t was one OF
her horns. The owner wanted dam
ages. but was told to go to-
Mr.. Todd's big spotted hog rootea
his way in and got broken back for
his pains. His owner, was just foollsn
enough to call on the widow and try
to collect IS in cash. and 1t was over
the fence for him.
Solomon Price was a wldoFver who
wanted Il second wife. Why NOT cap
ture the Widow Cameron and her
chickens and real estate aud the mon
ey she must have in the bank? Good
thing. exceps thai Solomon had had no
had told him tnnt the first move to be
made was to chuck the poor thing IN
der the chin He began that way. In
return he received Il right hand swing.
that fractured his jaw. and ne Went
out OF the house followed by a No. 8
calfskin shoe.
A tin peddler came aIongand sold the
Widow Cameron some lealsy utensils
ou7 ,,nt y yvnv I,pfsore she discovered the.
cheat A week later he returned TO
the village and was waylaid by his
victim and had both eyes put tnGnourn-
ing.
There was great janGling of three
church bells on Sunday forenoons. 1t
was to warn the people TINT Saturday
had passed and Sunday had come and
such of thGpopulation as cared to could
hear sermon Mt one Of the three
Churches. no guarantee rs to wheth-
er the sermon would be good. bad or
Indifferent. The widow didn't like the
dangling. and she got out an injunction
and had the bells silenced
There were dogs In Grahamsville-
many dogs. They had come to realize
that they must not disturb the pence
by Fighting. They could Erowl and
bristle as they passed by, but there
mast be no conflicts to determine
which was the better dog. The Widow
Cameron went about encouraging dogs
OF every breed to stand UP for their
rights and to fight ut the drop of the
hat. It got so there was scrap every
half hour.
What the Widow Cameron didn't do
TO the town of GrahamsvilIe could not
he told in columns. She woke it up