August 12th, 1921
SHOCKING INCIDENT AT GREENDALE VILLAGE PARKBy Nancy FancifulA violent incident, involving two young females initially quarrelling but eventually engaging in a physical fight, which left onlookers shocked and scandalised occurred at Greendale Village Park on Sunday late morning, as Greendale Gazette has been informed.
The young lady above on the left (a) was taking some air strolling through the park when coincidentally she met with the lady on the right (b) whom she had long suspected of 'making eyes' at her fiancé whom she has been engaged to for eight months.
Enraged at the sight of her alleged rival, she confronted the other woman without hesitation, demanding that she will cease to 'secretly meeting' him. It appeared that the lady (b) at first showed herself amused at the accusations directed at her by lady (a); however their encounter soon turned from a verbal argument in which they hurled abuse in foul language at eachother to a fight in which both women started to slap eachother's faces and brutally rip handfuls of hair from their eachother's heads.
Eye witnesses told Greendale Gazette the two hostile ladies were so intent on 'destroying' eachother that Mrs Manderley, the mother of town Mayor Mr S. Manderley, who was, at the time in question, present in the park, fainted at the sight of the two females' brutal fight and was attended to by a small group of ladies and gentlemen who, with the agency of smelling salts, brought the elderly lady back on her feet before accompanying her to her home.
We, at the Greendale Gazette, are appalled at the young women's behaviour and, like all our readers presumbly would do, hope that such un-ladylike demeanour will not repeat itself in our beautiful town of peace loving citizens in the future.
