Love-making and breaking is being considered part of a day’s work at Gus Geurokus’ shoeshine parlor, on South Tryon street. Gus himself is mixed up in a legal encounter because he married a woman who had been divorced from a sailor. Friday he felt himself called upon to stem the alleged love-tide which was about to overcome his hired man, Jim Pappas. In his efforts to control Pappas’ love-knocks, he was haled into Magistrate F.B. Alexander’s court and placed under a $100 peace bond to insure his hired man’s safety.
Pappas, according to the evidence at Magistrate Alexander’s court, looked with deep favor upon the young woman cashier at Geurokus’ establishment. He wrote her a note expressing his sentiments in the best language he could. His alleged attempts at wooing were resented by the cashier, however, and the note turned over to Geurokus.
Geurokus went after his hired-man with gloves off, and the threat to kill is alleged to have been made. Pappas swore out a peace warrant. Magistrate Alexander held Pappas along with Gus under the $100 bond to insure peace in the neighborhood of the shoeshine parlor.
From the Charlotte News and Evening Chronicle, Saturday evening, Feb. 19, 1921
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