THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, Missouri. Friday, February 13, 1920. TAYLORTOWN RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF A PROTRACTED CHARIVARI. The residents in the vicinity of Browne's store in Taylortown have been treated to a protracted charivari this week. Mrs. J. F. Brandley and Lou Hastings, upon a mutual desire to quit the state of single blessedness, were united in marriage Sunday and took up their residency in this neighborhood. A party of their friends gathered Sunday night to give them the time-honored serenade, which usually falls to the lot of those who have experienced a previous matrimonial venture. The assembled company pulled off the charivari in the good old-fashioned way to the tune of the beating of pans and the use of firearms of different kinds, the ringing of cow bells and any other noise-producing device that could be thought of. The newlyweds failed to "come across" so the performance was repeated for several nights following. We have been informed that all the tinware in Taylortown has been beaten into unrecognizable shapes and the nerves of all the women are on edge, but the end is not yet.