Show ALFIELD AL FIELD HAD TO PAY WAGER WAGA minstrel finds that the weather lc Is I 1 a mighty uncertain thing to set bet on when tile the al G 0 field musical band stopped in front of the nell house a few days ago anil and played a concert a bet of over a years standing between al 0 field and den ben harmon manager of tile the hotel was paid the bet was made in a hotel in hot flot springs ark when Ila riannon and field met there by chance it was in the summer mid anti the weather was waa os as dry as a bone bolic tho the farmers near hot springs were being burned out and all of them thein were hanging around the hotels lit in the little town cussing bussing fato fate and the weather 1 I never saw it fall said air field that when one august was bad that tile ono following great next august if wo we had a dry month in co cumbus this year will be a wet 0 one den ben harmon hannon took exception to tile the statement and tile the two men mail got hold of section director Alc attore in ili lit tie rock hock ark and found that tile the precipitation for fo august 1009 1909 in columbua bolum was inches mr air field immediately be bet t harmon that the following august would see at least four inches of rainfall here lie beta public concert to twenty tickets to his minstrel show allow I 1 friday tu morning thorning as soon as field arose ho ha telephoned to the newspapers to 0 o fend out how matt matters mattard erd stood in the rainfall department its been the driest august in thir ty two years lie ho was told holy smoke shouted mr field Is that on tile the level pretty near said the reporter there was it a fall 12 lis 0 of f an inch I 1 gosh said mr field cameon Co moon meon down and listen to a concert lafront in lq front of the nell house maybe therell bo be something following it too cause it corta certainly has been howo powerful erful dry around hera columbus dispatch |