The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-04
Awful
Skandal!
Lem Brown, One Of Our Hereto
fore Most Respected Citizens
Disgrased for Life!---AII the
Result Of Strong Drink!---De-
lishus PartickIers as FoIIers!

Lem Brown, our expert carpenter,
and up to now CONSIDERED one of the
most respectful citizens of Bingville,
has went & drug his good name in the
mud, so to speak, and messed up his
reputashion in SIGH manner that it will
take him a awful long time to live it
down.
Last Thursday evg Lem dropped over
to Deacon Butterworth's to have chat
with the Deacon and also game of
checkers if the Deacon felt like check
ers, which the Deacon did, and pres
emily the two was hard at it.
Mrs. Butterworth about D. m. said
she calkilated she would go to bed, be-
ing as she had been on her feet all day
and was exosted, so she said good night
and vert upstairs. She haddent emmy
moren DISAPPEARED from sight until the
Deacon said that being as his WI: was
outen the way he would step d wn to
the celler and bring up pitcher of old
hard cider to add to the festivities of
the checker game.
The cider was a good cal stronger
than Lem thor: it vas, and after Lem
had gulped down three tin cups full he
begin to git sort of muddled in his
head and didn't seem to know whether
it was his move or not and jumped the
Deacon's men where there wassent emmy
jumps, and moved backards and for
rards or any way to suit hisself.
Bye and bye the Deacon got out of
all pashients & told Lem he was full.
Then Lem got mad and throwd the
checker board on the floor spilling all
the checkers, two of which rolled into
the fire and was burned up, then Lem
| told the Deacon to go to blazes and
Ct teA ~ t.1~~
Lem, he zigzagged along, talein up
most all the street as he meanderd
from one side of the road to tother,
until finally he stopped in front of Miss
Phoebe Hilderbrands residence, our
] fashionable dressmaker, and hung on
to the front fence to rest as it were.
AS Lem hung there he begin to sing in
loud voice, Farewell. Farewell, My
Own True Love!" which wicked up
Phoebe, and when she come to the win
dow and seen Lem there nearly Dustin
hisself singin, she fairly boiled.
"Shame on you, Lem Brown! says
Phoebe. You, respectable married
man, to come around under my winder
at this time of night and sing love songs
to me, innocent, trusting young girl
& defenceless femalel / shall tell your
| wife about this !"
| Then Phoebe slammed down the win
der & went back to bed, and Lem went
on and finally got home. Lem woke
his wife up when he fell on the front
PLAYER, and she come down stairs with
lamp and helped him in,. and when
she found he was in a turrible state OF
| intoxicashion she was that heart-broken
that she grabbed up broom and broke
it into splinters over LENS head in
her grief. This soberd Lem up . good
cal and he snuk off to bed in the at
tick Next morning when he come
down stairs with turrible headake his
wife give him a turrible tung lashing
that was heerd by all the nabers- 1t
appears that Phoebe had been over
early and had told Mrs. Brown about
how Lem had sang sentimental songs
to her the night before under her win
der, and Mrs. Brown was almost fran
tick.
| Lem denide making love to Phoebe
right to her face. He said his head