The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-14
LOCAL POST T. P. A. HAS ENTHUSIASTIC
 MEETING SATURDAY
Committee Named to Assist National Secretary Logan When He Visits City Next Week
 Charlie Abrams Has Exciting Evening at Bad ger Fight Other Items of Interest to Travellers
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, his low. rumbling growl of discontent could be heard above the babel of voices 1 from time to time. The door was | opened and all present expected the l badger to spring forth and tear the bulldog into shreds. However, nothing of the sort occurred. The chain to which the animal was attached could be seen near the door to the closet, but Mr Badger had retired into the darkest recesses of that place.
 Well, the fights off, wearily ex- claimed a visitor, The won't come out.'' Charlie could not endure the thought | of not getting the other fellows 50-cent ! piece however, and suggested that 1 someone pull the badger from the closet ! The suggestion was hooted. It was ex- plained to Charlie that the badger would kill the dog if he was jerked from his l hiding place so unceremoniously. That's all right" said Charlie, I've | got 50 cents on that badger, and would | ike to see him kill that dog" Finally, it was agreed that Charlie 1 ould have the privilege of pulling the l badger forth to battle. The brave fel- | ow gingerly approached the closet door, l and made a tentative reach for the chain that was trailing almost to the entrance. Nothing happened, so he made frantic grab, secured the chain, and gave jerk that would have pulled a ] horse from the closet.
 1 Charlie fell backward and began scrambling toward the door, amid the | uproarious laughter of everyone in the room He had pulled from the closet a soup tureen instead ot |, Dause4 -. the joke was decidedly lon" him. It was an elaborate setting for joke, but the travellers agreed that the fun of the thing made the trouble seem well worth while.
 ] To add to Charities discomfiture, he received a telegram Saturday night from Dora, signed by c. w. Jackson, reading as follows:
 "Other than bruised side badger rest ! ing we'll"
 l A. Jax Davis arrived in Birmingham last week looking as fit as a fiddle and lis greeting his old friends here. He is bunking with Tom Epperson during his stay here, and from the way Tom greeted him one would gather the impression that the erstwhile secretary of the local l council of U. c. ITS was playing Santa Claus to the present secretary, and had | just completed the pleasant task of filling his stockings. Even Tim, Adolph Beck's chauffeur, was glad to see Ajax back on his old stamping grounds, and offered his former employer free ride I in Adolphs car
 i7 Il. b. N1dTSndil IS all olllllSo ONSA tAiS return of cooler weather. MT Marshall sells stuff that seems to take better when the thermometer is flirting with the freezing point.
 Grandpa KenneSy left Saturday
 Orleans. He expects to 1 remain in the Crescent CitT for two weeks. Before leaving, he called on A.. Jax Davis and secured an address, which MT. Davis obligingly wrote on piece of paper The wording on that paper was neither the St. Charles nor the Grunewaid hotel.
 F. P. Kirkpatrick was on hand Satur- day afternoon and by his timely sug- gestions showed that he wias the right man in the right place.
 1 George M. Plaisance was in Montgonl- cry last week and says Coke Smith told him that the Montgomery council showed 1 a 50 per cent increase in membership since last year. MT. Plaisance will be in Huntsville this week, and will try and discover if Will Wall is yet alive. | If the grand councillor is on earth, MT. Plaisance hopes to wiring from him | a promise to visit Birminham on the night of the first Saturday in March, when the big dinner will be served.
 
 | D. J. Ditto is the proud possessor of l a pencil three feet long and he used it to write his large orders with. Just why he should have such a huge pen | cil to write his stuff is a mystery, but he doesn't appear to object to paying excess baggage rates on the young log.