Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-13
81 JANIS B. NEYTN

General Joseph Van Holt Nash and
Former President Of the Senate W 5.
West both are some fsh-er-preva-
ricators. when 1t gets right down to
brass tacks,
They met yesterday in the recep-
ton room OF the Governor and while
the Governor discussed the pros and
cons Of something or other with Colo
mel slick" Thompson, of Gainesville,
Nash and West went to It. hammer
and tongs.
Il caught a trout in pond near
Valdosta recently said West that
was really two trouts. The trout
hooked had been swallowed halfway
by another trout, and the second trout
could not get away. Together they
weighed nine pounds-I had EN-
weighed Immediately after landing
them. However, the trout In South
Georgia are so accommodating that
this sort OF thing frequently hap
pens"
Nash never batted an eye He pro-
ceeded, on the contrary, to bat out
a story Of his own. And this is what
he said:
"Out at East Lake recently / was
padding around in my trusty canoe,
when | saw ten-pound trout appar-
emily dead on the surface of the wa
ter. | yanked him into the boat with
my hands and no sooner was he in
that lie Topped around and coughed
up one pound Dream. I padded
around the lake some more and saw
another trout on the surface of the
water. yanked him in with my
hands, and no sooner was he in than
he Topped around and coughed up a
moCcasin snake"
West gasped. but never lost mis-
nerve
what happened after that. Joe?"
anxiously inquired the South Georgia
statesman.
"Oh, l padded Immediately back to
land. ! didn't want to get my boat
filled up with mere Dream and snakes
did II" complained the Adjutant Cen
eral
That's nothing much, anyway"
began West. all over again.
But by this time the audience of in
nocent hystanders had fed. 1t had
had an overdose for that day!
| what marvellous tales were told there
after. as neither vouchsafed any in
formation to some rank outsider in
curing later
Thomas w. Loyless, editor of The
! Augusta Chronicle is now the presl-
! dent OF a steamboat line which oper-
| ates boats up and down the Savan-
nah.
Didn't know there was any money
in operating water wagons in the vi
ctnity of Augusta" said a visitor to
! the Secretary Of States office when
/ informed OF the happy circumstance
! stated, ssh, ] guess Tom Loyless
knows how to turn the trick, if any
! body does"
| Representative Louis t. wisdom.
! of Forsyth County who is just out of
| an Atlanta sanitarium where he was
| confined for week or more, follow
ing an operation upon his throat.
| Wisdom, who is next to the young
| est member of the House. and Is a
! great favorite with every member, is
! about all right physically again, but
| has gone 10 the mountains for a
| months rest from work, nevertheless
/ Governor John NJ. Slaton spent yes.
| terday in Griffin, the guest OF honor
of the Spaiding County Fair. but will
be in hts offices in the Capitol for the
remainder of this week
Next week he goes to Douglas, in
Coffee County, and TO Columbus. in
| Muscogce where fine county fairs are
| in progress.
The forthcoming meeting OF the Joint
an fFal FWaH.Va NNA
] House. called to consider further the
proposed RELEASE Of the Western and
| Atlatic Railroad, bids fair to be a most
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