In case it snows tonight and I'm not able to summarize the "naming of
the food service facility" replies for Friday afternoon humor:
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:47:58 -0500
> Reply-to: Tennessee Library Association and other Tennessee librarians
> <TLA-L@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
> From: Glenn Selfe <GSELFE@AOL.COM>
> Subject: A bit of humor to brighten your day!
> To: Multiple recipients of list TLA-L <TLA-L@UTKVM1.UTK.EDU>
> Knox County Archives (a division of the Knox County Public Library
> System) staff found the following in a divorce petition from the
> late 19th century.
> You be the judge: have attorneys changed since 1888? (Let's hope
> they
> didn't charge Bertha by the word.)
>
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>
> Bertha Scherf, a citizen of Knox County, Tennessee
> Against
> John Scherf, nonresident of Tennessee
>
> Filed February 1888.
>
> To the Honorable S. T. Logan, Judge holding Criminal Court at
> Knoxville, Tennessee.
>
> It was in the golden days of September 1880 when amid the bounteous
> harvests and burnished leaves of Autumn that love like a smile from
> Heaven came to the hearts of these parties and in North Georgia with
> bright but delusive hopes they plighted anew their mutual affections
> and were again united in the holy bonds of matrimony.
>
> Some joyous days set in: Peace and plenty reigned supreme and life
> flowed on as sweet as a little poem. But there is no sunshine
> without-a-shadow. To this happy pair the hour of darkness came.
> Soon Tempatation in the form [of] a red-headed woman beset
> respondent's way and lured him from the path of virtue. All covered
> over with the disgrace of adultery he fell a victim to her charms,
> abandoned complinant and departed.
>
> Happier days were ever ended. Fonder hopes were ever crushed. But,
> alas, this complainant was forced by fate to succumb to the
> inevitable and another monument was erected to the inconstancy of
> man's love.
>
> Despoiled of the flower of her virginity, the elastic step of early
> youth gave love lying desolate at her feet and without the
> refreshing influence of progeny her life is but an empty void.
>
> Caldwell and Mynatt, Solicitors.
>
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>
> >Glenn Selfe
> >Executive Assistant to the Director
> >Knox County Public Library System
> >Knoxville, Tennessee
> >GSELFE@aol.com
Kelly Browne, browne@libra.law.utk.edu
Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian
University of Tennessee College of Law Library
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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