Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-21
The "Dudes" Arrive


The "Dudes" Arrive
As one, the spectators on the plat
form stretched their necks to catch
the first glimpse Of the train bearing
it's precious cargo Of millionaires.
| Wallie felt suddenly nervous and
wished he had taken more pains to
dress, as he visualized the prosperous
! looking, we'll -groomed folk of The Co.
lonial Hotel.
AS the mixed train backed up to
| the station from the Y, it was seen
that the party was on the back plat
form of the one passenger coach,
ready to get off. The engine stopped
so suddenly that the cars bumped and
the party on the rear platform were
| thrown violently into each others
arms.
The expression on old Mr.. Penrose's
face was so fiendish as Mrs. G. d.
Budlong toppled backward and stood
on his bunion that Wallie forgot the
graceful speech of welcome he had
| framed.
"Get off my foot!" he shouted.
Mrs. Budlong obeyed by stepping
on his other foot.
Mr.. Appel, who had lurched over
the railing, observed sarcastically:
"They ought to put that engineer
on a stock train"
The party did not Immediately rec
ognize Wallie in his Western clothes,
but when they did they waved grimy
hands at him and cried delightedly:
Here We are, Wallet"
Wallie made no reply to this self
evident fact and, indeed, he could not,
for he was too aghast at the shabby
appearance of his wealthy friends to
think Of any that was appropriate.
They looked as if they had ransacked
their attics for clothes in which to
make the trip.
The best that Wallie could immedi-
ately manage was limp handshake,
and a sickly grin as the coal baron
and street-railway magnate, Mr.. Henry
Appel, stepped off in suit of which
he had undoubtedly been defrauding
his janitor for some years.
Mrs. ]. Harry Stott was handed
down in a pink creation, through the
lace insertion of which one could see
the cinders that had settled in that
| fat crease of her neck. While Mrs.
Stott recognized it's appropriateness,
she had decided to give it final wear
and save fresh gown.
Upon her heels was Mr.. Stott, in
clothes which bore mute testimony to
the fact that he led sedentary life.
Mr.. Stott was elmer" for business
purposes and he was wearing all his
lodge pins in the expectation of OBJ
tanning special privileges from broth
er members while travelling.
G. D. Budlong wore blazer" and
pair Of mountain boots that had in
volved him in quarrel with Pull
man conductor, who had called him a
vandal for snagging plush seat with
the hobnails. At his wife's request,
Mr.. Budlong was bringing a canvas
telescope filled with variety of
timed fruits. 1t was so heavy that it
sagged from the handle as he bore 1t
in front of him with both hands, so
no one was deceived by his heroic ef-
forts to carry it jauntily and make 1t
appear that he did not notice the
weight.
The only stranger in the party was
Mrs. Henry Appel's maiden aunt
Miss Lizzie Philbrick-sixty or there
abouts. "Aunt Lizzie" was refuge
from the City of Mexico, and had left
that troublesome country in such a
panic that she had brought little be-
sides bundle of the. reports of HUI
name Society with which she had been
Identified, apd an onyx apple, to which
it was assumed there was much senti-
ment attached, since she refused to
trust it to the baggage car, and was
carrying it in her hand
Aunt Lizzie" looked as If she had
been cast for period play-early Gen
eral Grant, perhaps-as she descend
ed wearing a beaded silk mantle and
bonnet with strings.
BE careful, Aunt Lizzie! Look
where you step!"
The chorus of warnings was due to
| the fact that Aunt Lizzie already had