Show TOOK DRINK AND BOUGHT A CITY north carolina planter wakes up to find himself owner of a town APPLE BRANDY DOES IT meeta various friends with apple brandy and then drifts into a real estate auction after that the awakening wilson N C W 11 II tomlinson a well wall joao to do planter of this city took a drink or of apple brandy and bought a whole city tile tho details were told in nn an action in the county court hero here b be foro fare judge oo J D bartor was tho the defendant according to tho the story told in ta tho courtroom mr air tomlinson took otio ono drink of apple brandy thon then lie went out and mot met a friend who had some aoma apple brandy then tile the two met a friend who had somo some apple brandy after that the three met a friend who had some apple brandy after that things are a little vague judge rountree insist on the witness belne being altogether too accurate about his recollections dut but this lie ho learned mr tomlinson drifted drift od or tacked along to a real estate auction there was a band to stimulate those who needed that kind ot of stimulation mr air tomlinson says saya lie ho although ho he evidently got some too mr tomlin son says lie ho remembers tho the band but ho he had no recollection whatever ot of the deed to three and three quarter acres of property which lie he found in his pocket the next day ito ho looked the document oyer over and not being sure whether lie ha was reading aright lie he called in his daughter she figured out that her father had bought tho the three and three tareo quarter acres acrea of land a mile from wilson giving notes for 2800 that the property was all set out with trees of three years growth streets had been laid out sowers sewers dug and in fact that thu the place was a city laid out and awaiting only tho the touch of a magic hand band to become a rival of wilson allson the magrit magnitude wole of tho the proposition somewhat ov creame mr tomlinson jie ile has plenty of money but he exactly want the city still he went out and looked it over it looked pretty good there were trees getting ready to arch themselves over tho the tour four or five streets they looked like real live trees but they theres where the rub came the trees died they not only died but Y 3 he looked the document over they fell over and then than mr tomlinson found that they were without roots that they wore were trees only from the ground up rhey hey had been cut somewhere oft off in the w woods sharpened on tho the end like a picket and driven into the ground mr tomlinson put the finishing touches to tho the story in court 1 I really have cared so awful much about the whole thing ho he said but I 1 watered those trees all summer long |