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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 31,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>LONGEST WAY HOME NOT QUICKEST</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Good Story on President of County Court Told by
Himself--Delayed by Political Argument</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> A good story is told by the president of the
county court on himself. He was at Matoaka on Monday and became so
interested in a political argument that he allowed the Norfolk and Western train
to go off and leave him. Casting about for a way to get home he finally
had to take a train to Princeton, from which point he had to ride the hack to
Ingleside. From Ingleside he came to this city on train No. 3 and from
here went on home, arriving there a good many hours after he had expected to
arrive. It is really strange what politics will do for some people.
The president of the court on account of a political argument had to take a
roundabout trip of thirty-fire miles to get to Bramwell when a ten mile railroad
trip would have gotten him there if it had not been for some pow wow. In
addition to this he had to make the usual explanations at home. He says
hereafter he will only talk politics at the depot.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>