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Show EDiTOH GETS TRO'JIJGED i WILBERG GETS A FINE i i The above headline may cause a j smile to some, but it tells loo much to bring a smile at this ollice. As a mat- tor of fact it takes a sunny temnera-i temnera-i ment to enjoy a black eye. j But as to hn.v it happened: Well. 1 some time last week C irl Wilberg sent i his resignation to the clerk of the Castledale to.vn board. The editor learned of it and published it and think-, think-, ing that he would make it as easy for ' the retiring president as possible remarked re-marked that it was "un lor.-l.ood" to be ! on account, of "family troubles." Saturday we were moving when Mr. ' Wilberg come in and calling o ir atten-j atten-j lion to the said article was soon in the ; midst of a tirade in which he called us ; all' the bail names he knew and stated that he would .like to have the article correct ed'as he had no ' family trou-, trou-, bles." We were glad to learn that and ! told him we would be glad to make a : correction, if he would tell us what he i wanted to give as a reason. He would f not do that so all we can do is to state I it as we have that we were mistaken I as to the cause. In the mean time he j had ask us to take off our glasses and ; go out to fight. As we would be as ! badly handicapped wdthout glasses as ! he wotdd with one hand tied behind I him we did not accept this. ! Later just after unloading a press he came up and without warning landed us on the temple. Well, the next few j minutes were very busy ones for us and J we can't tell exactly what happened. I We know we landed a few blows and ! we presume he did by the way we look- ed afterwards. A clinch followed and j we landed on our back with the other fellow too close for comfort. Friendly hands stopped the tussle at this point and we gathered ourselves up some what the worse for hard usage. We swore out a complaint and at the trial Wednesday Mr. Wilberg drew a fine of $20. This he of course paid and all is lovely. We are glad it was no worse as we think it was in the case as told by an editor in a town not a thousand miles away. This is the way he telis it: "There was a hlow. Somebody fell. We got up. Turning upon our antag-j onist, we succeeded in winding his arms around our waist, and by a quick man- ! euver threw him on top of us, bringing our back, at the same time, in contact with the solid bed of the printing press. Then, inserting our nose between his teeth and cleverly entangling his hands in our hair we had him!" Perhaps we had as well say before it is too late that scrapping is not in our line and that if anyone gets a notion j that we need licking we would like to : have three days notice so as to get a J substitute. |