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A Good One On Judge Harriman

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
January
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Good One on Judge Harriman

The following story has reached the ears of the Times and should not be lost from the archives of Washtenaw county's historical events:

Not many centuries ago while the Hon. William D. Harriman, a resident of Washtenaw county, was keeping a large audience spellbound, descanting upon the beauties of Robert Burns' life work in a Unitarian church not many leagues from here, the amiable wife of the minister of that church descried amongst that audience of good Unitarians a black sheep - or, rather, it must be added - one not of the fold, a prominent lady of a neighboring Congregational church. After the audience had sufficiently recovered from the hypnotic effects of the judge's address, the minister's wife greeted the Congregational lady pleasantly and in the course of the conversation incidentally asked: "How did you happen to get into a Unitarian church?" Her response was startling beyond all conception. "I would go anywhere - to the bottomless pit itself - to hear Judge Harriman." As the conversation was then abruptly closed, it was not learned whether the lady wished to intimate that that was the place where she expected to ultimately listen to some more of the judge's eloquence.