The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
Girls Spill Oil
In the Mul1igan
On a Coon HINT
Tongues Feel Like Lamp
wicks After Society Folks
Consume Stew in the
Woods.
COaloil in the mulligitawny!


society men and women who went
coon hunting last Thursday night, had
4 riD-snOrtin' good time.
But who can have good time after
his insides have been creased with one
Of John DIS crudest products and his
tongue tastes like a lampwick?
Who can hunt coons when his "eats"
! make him dread momentary spon-
taneous internal combustion?
Beau Brummel Pouch" Gaines tried
to laugh it off in a hearty way that
ended in a wall.
ITS the finest muIligan stew | ever
tasted,' cOurageously asserted Percy
Osterloh.
"Smels likt q lighthouse by the sea-
Shore" chirped Blanche Oakley.
Reminds me of my happy home on
| the farm" came from Doc Edwards.
The coon hunting party was another
of Docs efforts. Virtually the same
crowd that opened the society coon
hunt" season ten days ago and drove
out to Charley Juden's farm on the
Bloomfield road, again loaded them
selves into big truck in the west end
of town and started out for meat.
Preparations for the event were
made with a vast deal Of secrecy.
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affair was told "mum" was the word.
Another attempt was to be made TO
take the Normal girls out.
Doc furtiveIy slipped up to the back
door at "Maw" Cooper's and asked the
loan of big kettle for the stew.
"Maw' didn't say much of anything,
but she handed out the kettle.
Doc. that night, held whispered con-
versations with "Fritz" Albert and
Fred Groves until Nav" chased him
out of the house with her rawhide
whip.
The rest of the boys got into their
lace boots or puttees and eventually
the van started.
Bowser, who was along, was un-
loosened as they reached the Juden
farm, and the coon hunt was on. The
women piled out at the side of Juden's
house and Immediately Mrs. Garrett
Glenn and Mrs. Henry Taylor had an
argument as to which one was to be
straw boss of the mulligitawny.
Skinner Speaks settled the argument
by insisting that he take charge
I'm an expert stew man." Skinner
declared.
Anyway everyone began dumping
things into the kettle and the kettle
began to boil.
And then one of the girls-it hasn't
been decided whether it was one of the
matrons there or not-but anyway, one
of the young women got curious, pick
ed up the lantern and Diogenes-fash-
ion, held the lantern over the kettle
to see what the mixture looked like.
Right there Juden's lantern gave
way and in went the cOalOil from the
lantern.
The place smelled like someone was
burning feathers. Everyone cut loose
with low cry that sounded like a dy- |
ing melodramatic heroine.
The stew was topped off with brown |
bread and after dinner minis. The |
minis didn't remove the oily taste.
The girls who were in the party are:
Gertrude kOcher, Miss Helkamp, of !
Jackson; Blanche Oakley, Miss Link i
weller, Erna Linxweiler, Opal O'Brien
and a sister, Miss Donaldson; Mary
Stocks, of Maiden, and Erna Thilenius. |
The boys were: Albert Grimes, Doc
Pouch Gaines, Bob Harrison,
Bob Bechman, William Shivelbine, Os-
car Shivelbine, Skinner Speaks, Clar-
ence Potts, Leslie Patton, Russell Deal,
Leon Hannah, Gerald Wright and Per-
cy Osterloh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett Glenn and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Taylor were chaper-
ones. The party returned to town in
the wee, small hours of the morning.
No, they didn't catch a single COON
not even possumi