The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-29

 persua sion in the shape of a sawed. off shotgun n keeping him from doinL so And the whole matter is up in the liI. neither side being able 10 do anything on account C. the absence of the court. There fore the tennis court k partly torn up. although il k still OF Dads ground and in his possession and the tennis players have no plaC" where they can enjoy their fayoritc sport.
 The tennis club was formed atoUt three years ago. and at that time the courts were placed on the Dad Shaw property. immediately in front of the Shaw house at cost ul nearly $900. the club footing thc bill Just what the terms of ta" contract by which they did 90 is not stalable at this time. as tho verbal contract is the latter ir dispute
 pad" claims that tho club was to have the free use of the ground for two years and that after tha; time he should be paid rent and that the CouTt should revert to him The club denies that the court be longs to Dad" and therefore dr. cided to move IL to a lot on Cowie5 street recently purchased for tennis purposes 1t was then that Dad" made his appearance with the shot gun
 All parties to the affair are nat urally considerably wrought up ovc: it. but seem 10 be unable 10 reach an agreement The club has of fered 10 put up a cash bond pending the return of the court from the lower river, md Dad" hae offered 10 take 5000 and allow the club to remove the court. To which con ii tions neither side will agree
 The tennis club is, however, pc pairing to start play on it's new lot Work on a new court there will bc started within the next few days. but there will only be one court where heretofore it had been o"- peCted that there would be at least two, and that all of the tennis players of the city would be pre- yided for
 Trials Just because tell things ! Of The everybody picks on me, Tattler. even Johnny Kelly, whom
 have always considered one of my best friends. For that was one of Johnny's etfusions H. the evening paper last Friday nigh that one about the girl who didn't? want to be kissed, and her llttI4 brother
 Now I'm going to tell on John0y, girls, for the truth of the matter IS that the little story he told oriPi- hated in his fertile brain. unless he read 1t somewhere or else had some experience of the same kind, will not say how many years ago it might have been, And even at that I am still friendly to John, in spite of his knocking me. so I will say that his gossip does not half bespeak his actual cleverness if he wants to work at the writing trade 1 It will be noted that John com pares the story as it might have i appeared in Life" or Judge" win the way it might appear in The Citizen. Ct was the first time John ever called me his country cousin and I feel real giggly about iU. i But I'll leave it to you is Johns long story of explanation is not better than the two lines in whlcn 1 it might be told in much more abbreviated form. And I'll thank John for the flowery language he i has used and which he attributed to me.
 i John and I agree on nearly every subject except my stuff" the war, i prohibition and many other things i too numerous to mention. There fore we never have many discus sions. of course, except in the mat ter of the stuff" and my manner of getting at things does not seer, to be very pleasing to John. And being something of tattler him. self, as he demonstrated when he i in to show just how long story could be made or how much it could be abbreviated and carry the same meaning All ot which goes to show i that John thinks my little stories are too long.
 i Johns story, however. caused con- siderable consternation among the ranks of the young ladies, from several standpoints. None of them, of course, took the matter person ally, but all were terribly interested in finding out just who could be meant And that is the reason am telling you about Johnny's fake story.
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