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and telling him that Willie was going to buy his girlfriend's box so Charlie believed him and it made him mad as all get out, so when Willie bought this cake Charlie went up to the counter and told Mr. Yates who was selling and taking care of all such You'd better go get your money for that cake Willie Hover just bought and Mr. Yates told him he wasn't worried in the least about Willie not paying him so any way another one of Willies brothers (Arch) and Buck Dawsey were standing by and heard Charlie tell Mr. Yates so they came right on and told Willie and so he wasn't going to do anything about it so Arch said if you don't. I will. So then Willie got up and asked Charlie outside and asked him why he thought he wouldn't pay for the cake but he denied saying it so Arch and Bud stepped up and said don't you deny it because we both heard you tell Mr. Yates. So then Charlie's brother (Simon) steps up to Willie and tells him that's enough and when he did Willie said alright, let's see you stop it and with that Willie grabbed Simon around the neck and was punching the breath out of him and Simon was hollering, I've got enough, I've got enough, so Willie turned him loose and about that time Mary (Charlie's girl) and I got a whiff of the fight and went out to see what it was all about but by that time it was all over. Willie weighed one hundred and forty-six pounds and Simon weighed two hundred and eighty pounds. Willies wasn't a large man but was as strong as a mule.
Another time at a supper Willie and Joe Smith both guessed the same thing that was in a cake so Mr. Johnson was taking care of things that Saturday night so he cut the cake in half and gave them each a half. So I made Willie take his half to his mother.
The night that Willie whipped Simon was the only time there was any disturbance of any kind.
Sister Emma lived up the road about a half a mile from the Lodge and I was spending the night there so Willie walked up after me then after the supper he took me back, so he told me afterwards that when he was going back to his home he had met Charlie and he said Charlie apologized to him and said Willie I'm sorry it all happened.
It just came to my mind about the terrible rain storm in Meterie in 1956. I believe
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