THEY PUT IN A SWANKY PLACE

                    
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THEY PUT IN A SWANKY PLACE

They had imported French liquors and wines of all sorts. They were the first to give free lunches too. Before that time they had just served straight red whiskey and nothing else much. There was a fireplace in the end of the building. Sometimes Jobe, Squire, Cooper would bring in turkeys. Mr. Williams would buy a bunch and put in the cellar. They would roast them on the fireplace.

(Old Squire, Jobe, Cooper was a famous man out in the Shive community, in the west part of the county. Must have served as J. P. And got that title. Mr. Jerry Waggoner, who worked for John L. Spurlin in the big store, later had a drugstore at Hamilton, and his boys, were good friends of mine - married Squire Cooper’s daughter. My Uncle Tom Roddy told me this story: the boys were having a good time one Christmas night by the fireplace at Wilcox’s out in the hills. Squire Cooper played the fiddle, and remarked that he could play anything. There was an old tom cat on the hearth, and someone in fun told him he couldn’t play the cat. He picked up the cat, put the end pf its tail in his mouth, pumped him like a bagpipe, and the cat made music. And Mr. Wilcox, and old fellow, some years back confirmed this story.

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 

 

 
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