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A History of the Hall County Whisker Club

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book and an "I shaved" brand on his anat'omy. In addition, Prince was sentenced to push the street cleaning cart in the parade, and walk behind the horse, for first aid in case the horse got stuck in the mud any place enroute.

Bob Donald was fined $5 and ordered to accompany Prince with his street clean-ing cart.

Larson and Jack Phelan paid fines of $1 each, and Phelan was sentenced to herd a duck down the street in the parade.

Gus Valonis, who spent $500 on a trip to Greece to evade paying 50 cents mem' bership in the Whisker club, explained everything in Greek to the jury, but the jury, after listening to interpretations by Dr. "Gus" Parks, put the English on the verdict and made the fine $20. Valonis was ordered to be hay carrier for the horse in the parade.

Parade Is Big Event

Interest in how Whisker club culprits walk and behave was reflected at noon, June 18, when men and women, boys and girls, lined both sides of Third street from Sycamore to Walnut street to watch the offenders sentenced at the Thursday night session of the whiskered kangaroos per' form as set down by the law. With the exception of omission of a couple of sun' bonnets, there is no cause for filing con' tempt of court charges against any of the 19 men involved in the recent court.

The parade was all that was expected, if the volume of laughing is a criterion, for the crowd gave every evidence of hilarious enjoyment as the various bundles of ludi' crousness appeared in the line of march. Even the horses whinnied, -which is the nearest to a horse laugh which it is possi' ble for a horse to give. Cameras clicked, but shaking stomachs and other parts of the anatomy against which the picture' taking machines were braced, gave rise to predictions that results may be entirely unsatisfactory.

Curly Larson, whose cherubic, visage gleamed from beneath a child's sunbonnet, rode the cushions of a baby buggy. He

carried a bottle of milk, but took twice as much impish delight in sowing the milk-broadcast on the spectators as he did in guzzling the liquid through the nipple. Pushing the baby carriage with might and main was Buck Beltzer, the effects of whiskerless dissipation showing up in a puff and wheeze unknown to Beltzer when he plugged the line in days when he pushed a pigskin up and down the field. Near him walked Ernie Frank, whose determination to permanently maim and injure a bass drum brought the drumstick dangerously near the face of the milk-fed infant on numerous occasions. Frank expressed his fondness for the babe at every intersection by beseeching someone on the sidelines to kiss the darling. Nobody did.

As a hay carrier for the horse, Gus Valonis was dressed for the occasion, but owalked behind the horse, whereas a horse eats hay from the front. Valonis carried a sign which read: "I am the Greek who went to Greece."

Dr. H. B. Boyden, delegated to lead the hoss, did so by persuasion rather than force. Boyden was attired in a green toga, which the hoss evidently took for grass, and followed hopefully behind the doctor.

Harry Nelson and Frank Ryan, barbers, who shaved a Whiskerite, carried banners which told of the occasion of their downfall, and Bill Smith, instigator of the deed carried a sign which read: "I told them to shave a nut."

Probably the high light of the parade was the appearance of Ed Glover, who rode a large tricycle. Glover pedaled hard to keep up with the parade, and after the conclusion of the agony was observed to walk as though he had accumulated a "Charlie-horse." But he rode the contraption just the same.

Ed Fox chauffcured the manure spreader as per orders, with Boyd Evans, Lee Austin and Ray Vantyle as passengers, two of the four failing to observe the decree concerning the wearing of sunbon-nets.

Verne Bell fished in the pail, with results that might be expected.

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