Lusen, the Frenchman, had a store on the square, west side probably had
a beautiful daughter helping, and ran a "kino" game. Mrs.
Williams said that Mr. Williams, before their marriage "flew at the
girl." He did not deny it. This man was the one that Josh Cook, just
after he bid in the catch, had a quarrel with, and he fired, the Frenchman
fell, and Cook thought he had killed him, and left the country for years
to find later that the Frenchman wasn’t hurt at all.
Mr. Williams said he did not like "kino" much, preferred
poker. Said that he and others were playing poker in the woods near the
cemetery when the storm came, the cyclone that killed Mrs. Dolloff out in
the country and "Hous’ as a baby lost his arm. That the storm
created a stir in town but the poker players in the woods didn’t know it
was a cyclone. Were intent on their game.
(Old Doctor Wilson was sitting on the board walk on saloon row and
refused to get up when people rushed by on the way to storm cellars,
finally said, "that would be one way to get out of this ... town!"
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979