The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-09
The story Of Jim Apperson.

Chicago In the Apperson's Jack.
rabbit" car, Jimmie Apperson, for sew.
eral weeks a resident Of Norfolk under
most unique circumstances, Is back In
Illinois and Is again a somewhat
familiar figure to the auto enthusiasts
OF Chicago and to the Chicago cop"
who more than once has escorted the
speedlImlt breaker to police court.
Among these people Jimmie Apperson
is known as "Jackrabblt" Apperson
after the car he drives. Other than
this information nothing has been
heard from Jimmie Apperson since he
left Norfolk several weeks ago.
"The herbs, the herbs, the wonder
full herbs, Who wants a package OF
the herbs, the Quaker herbs? Who
wants package? This gentleman
wants a package, wants package OF
the herbs, the Quaker herbs. Sold out
over herel Sold out againl Change
for dollar. Sold out again"
william Randolph Hearst, Jimmie
Appersons uncle, wants to cure the
Ills of the nation and barks his wares
through his string Of papers reaching
from Frisco to Manhattan island.
Jimmie Apperson, William Randolph
Hearst's ingenius nephew, was salts
fed for several weeks with helping
cure physical ills possessed by Nor
folk, as it seemed, in abundance, and
nd
for the brace of Quaker doctors who
recently held forth in this city under
the direction of doc" Haley.
Son of Millionaire Auto Maker.
Jimmie Apperson's father Is mih
lonaire manufacturer of automobiles.
If he is also man of humor and had
CHANGED to drop into the Auditorium
he might have bought a package of
the herbs from Jimmie Apperson,
bought 1t with twinkle i'm his eye
just to hear Jimmie sing out. Sold
out over here"
The Appersons OF Kokomo.
But II is to be feared that Mr.. Ap-
person is probably mot man Oh
humor, that he would not have left
his palatial home in Kokomo, Ind, 10
hear Jimmie Apperson selling Quaker
herbs in a Norfolk theater, and that
IL Jimmie has managed to win his
way back into the graces of his pater
the subject OF herbs and all allusion
there to appertaining are strictly tab
boed in the Apperson mansion For
1t is scarcely likely from what report
has said of the man who marketed the
first practical American automobile,
that he would have taken kindly to
this latest venture of his else while
college son.
You Remem ber Jimmie
You who dropped into the Quaker
shows will remember James Apper-
son as the young man who sold ION the
north side of the house, as the young
man who with tenor voice and a
lurking smile energetioally abetted the
aforementioned Haley in beguiling
you into buying of the herbs, as the
Young man who Maulted the railing
into the orchestra pit like college
athlete, which he lis or rather was.
Relsfed to the Hearsts.
Jimmie Apperson has some Of the
Hearst blood in his veins, some of the
Hearst instincts in his mind. Jimmie
Apperson is related to the Hearst
family through his father. Phoebe
Apperson Hearst, mother of William
Randolph Hearst, was an Apperson
before she married the late Senator
George Hearst of California.
Jimmie n college Frat Man.
A year ago last January Jimmie APP
person. he OF the herb selling vocation,
was a senior lin Cornell university at
Ithaca, N. " possessed of a $4,000
car of the '0S model, of an allowance
of $4,000 a year, member OF the
ultra select college fraternity of Delta
Kappa Epsilon ana engaged to st.
Mary's college girl, the daughter of
the first vice president of the Inter
national Harvester company
Duck Freshman and Lost $4,000 Per.
The bolt came from clear sky
James was canned" from college
He was fired, dismissed, dropped from
the rolls, whatever you want to call it,
Dut Knew III iht yes Vi
pater, back in Indiana still ahto-mak-
ing, he had been iDgloriously canned
and disgraced,. For Jimmie had
ducked freshman ip the lake. The
anti-hazing wave did the rest.
The story of the twelve months
which followed could be done into half
a dozen good magazine stories if jim
mic Apperson was literary tramp,
which he is not.
Went Broke in Mexico.
With the crash of the inglorious
smash-up of his college career still
ringing in his ears, Jimmie took his
big car to the auto garage, notified
his dear pater back in Kokomo and
took himself to Cuba with the $1,000
in cash which he had on hand. He
first visited Havana and then old
Mexico In the City of Mexico he
promptly came down with malaria
fever. He stayed in the hospital
seven weeks. He came out of that
Institution cured and broke That is