Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-18

| had full six-bt's worth Of his cooling
merchandise in his hand at the tlme
the bullet could not have possibly
passed, through it. 49,.
The feud started about sixty years
ago when Sidney Montague, the first
father Of the present Mr.. Sidney Mon
tague, was head Of the family. Both
the Montagues and the Capulets were
| then - and are still prominent In
business circles as the leading manu-
facturers Of macaroni and spaghetti
in the entire city. Mr.. Capulet was
president Of Capulet and Company,
while Mr.. Montague occupied the same
important position in the firm OF the
Caruso Spaghetti and Drainage Pipe
Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Bad feeling started when the Capu-
let corporation. pulled down the I'M
portant contract for furnish lg the
italian army with the hollow stem
med knapsack necessity during their
war with Turkey. The Montagues were
naturally enraged at this, and 1t was
said that their influence was largely
behind the senate investigation COM
mittee which probed the matter and
charged that inferior spaghetti had
given the Italian armies acute indiges-
ton and caused then to lose several
decisive engagements. Mr.. Montague,
being a far sighted man, suddenly
built pepsin tablet foundry at the
corner Of Mulberry and 4th streets,
and began shipping ship loads Of the
piquant sedatives to the sufferers.
BY this he doubled his fortune and
was decorated with the order of the
Royal PretZel, which entities him to
walk ahead of the royal cook in all at
fairs Of state. Not content with this,
Mr.. Montague brought over young
man from the thing department Of
| his corporation who evolved a plan OF
boring the holes in the spahgetti by
machinery. This process had been
done entirely by hand before, and the
new plan allowed the Montagues to
undersell their ancient competitor for
several years.
The first actual bloodshed was the
outcome Of the Capulets having hired
a cook, Mandy Johnson by name, who
had come to the Montagues from their
home in South Carolina and who had
made the family wheat cakes for some
ten years.
Last nights incidents among the
tombstones, was a direct result Of the
unfortunate love affair that sprang up
between the young favorites of the
scrapping houses. The two met about
this time last year at the fancy ball
given by Mr.. Capulet to the office force
of his factory.
Though he knew that the sight of a
Montague was about as soothing to a
Capulet as the sight Of a cat to a dog,
young Montague, against the advice Of
everyone except the family under
taker, disguised himself as Bluebeard
and attended the ball. While i re he
| met Miss Juliet. The young lady was
so deeply smitten that she sat out all
the rest of the dances with him in
| the conservatory. =
| Fearing to come to the house Of his
fathers enemy by the front door, Mr..
Montague had a sailor friend of his
make a rope ladder, and paid his
visits to his lady love via the Capulet
vegeta BILE garden and the balcony of
Miss CapMet's room. In this way he
ruined the turnip beds of his sweet
hearts father. His constant playing
of high-keyed serenades under the
window incurred the enmity of the
neighbors and Tybalt Capulet. who
roomed with the old gentleman.
Though persistent complaints were
made against the noise by neighbors
to the police, no action was taken in
the matter, and in street quarrel
resulting from reference to the sub
ject, Tybalt was struck with pair OF
brass knuckles and killed.
For this alleged offense Mr.. Mon
tague was put under bond to keep the
| peace and banished from the city
| limits. Before he left, however, he and
Miss Capulet snuck out one cloudy
might and crossing the river by ferry