Posted on 08/08/2017 5:22:56 PM PDT by mairdie
I LOVE that Watson convinced him to wait. That was brilliant. Do you remember the story when Watson was shot and Holmes told the shooter that if Watson died, he would kill the man. Simple and flat.
So one more thing, You didn’t notice that Ozzy Osbourne was controlling the licensing of the music videos? *Columbo*
And where was Sharon at the time if you don’t mind me asking?
Confused.
Just went to your page and enjoyed it immensely. Love history quotes. Family from Sherman TX near Dallas. We’ve lived in CA and CT.
Near Sherman now
Love collecting history. From mother’s father’s page:
Sherman was first located North-west of its present location, but was later moved to its present site because of better water conditions. The Butridge’s owned quite a lot of land in Sherman, having owned several blocks on what is now known as Wall Street, which includes the Merchants’ and Planters’ National Bank building. This land was never sold, but over a period of years, the title to it was lost. Their home was located close to what is now the Binkley Hotel. They also owned some property in East Sherman, which was traded by Napoleon Butridge for a herd of Mustang ponies that ran away the day after the trade was made, and the only one of them that was ever found was an old mule that they kept in the family for about 35 years.
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BORN IN LOG CABIN WHERE BANK NOW STANDS, SHERMAN MAN, 81, HAS SEEN STIRRING TIME
Sherman TX Feb 12
Born in a log house where the Merchants & Planters Bank now is located, C.S. Butridge is one of Sherman’s oldest native sons. A son of Riley and Susan Watson Butridge, he was born Jan 26, 1857, and with the exception of a few months has spent his entire life in Grayson County. At present he is at home with his only daughter, Mrs. Frank I. Grigg of Sherman. He has two sons, W. N. Butridge of Sherman and J.H. Butridge of Chicago.
When Mr. Butridge was 4 years old, his father as Captain made up a Sherman company in defense of the Confederacy, and with his mother he went to Farmington to stay with his grandfather, Coleman Watson, until his father’s return. Many colorful events in Sherman remain vivid in the memory of Mr. Butridge. He recalls the fire of 1873, when many buildings burned around the squre. Mr. Butridge also remembers a killing as result of a fight which started because of an argument over placing a flag on the court house. The shooting took place where the interurban station is now located, Lamar and Travis.
When the Sherman cyclone occured in 1896, Mr. Butridge, who has been a carpenter in Sherman for fifty years, was working on a porch about five miles south of Sherman. Hearing of the storm, he came immediately to Sherman and worked all night treating many injured and in collecting the bodies of the dead.
Indian country at onetime
It's a destruction of art, IMHO.
My great grandfather was from Youngstown Oh. He had a marvelous story of being in a Union regiment that was chasing Indians when their commander turned out to be a drunk that was going to get them all killed. So GGF, who was a lawyer, agreed to lead a regimental revolt and they put the commander under arrest while GGF rode to Fort Leavenworth to explain what they’d done. But someone let the commander loose and he took off after GGF to get his word in first. One of GGF’s returns shows him in Leavenworth, so I’m thinking he might not have won that race and it might have taken a good bit of explaining to get him out. Luckily for him, his horse fell on him and he quit the cavalry and joined the Judge Advocate Corps.
Ah, but that was art, too. Don’t you remember the art period when even the magazines were printed on paper that would quickly self-destruct and art was meant to be ephemeral? What was that???? Nihilistic period, maybe?
McKinley and Garfield served in the Indian wars.
I think Grant did too
Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!
Gnight FRiend
Sleep well, with beautiful dreams.
That was funny!
Mom asks whose smoking out here?
Mycroft says “Nobody”
Sherlock says “Mycroft” LOL!
I forgot the dialog! Brilliant catch.
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