The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-21
TWICE roIp TALES.

TWICE TOLD TALES.
Mt Pleasant Free Press. There Is
humor in almost everything, even
automobile accidents may be. funny,
and this one which befell a family
from Washington, Iowa, who We're
autoing home from Chicago, was at
least unusual. They had put the six
children on the back seat and the man
and his wife were having a splendid
time driving, discussing the scenery,
how well the car was running, wheth-
er the gasoline would hold out, and
all the many exciting things which
every driver knows, when a little
voice on the back seat called out
shrilly, Mama, | have been trying
to make you hear me for five min
utes." The mother looked around
and for some reason the back seat
looked unfamiliar; she carefully coun'
ted heads and found one missing.
One child had been lost out of the back
seat. They turned the car around
and about three miles back found
their little three-year.old girl coming
toward them, crying but entirely I'M
hurt. '.''.~ ''' D." 3 . .'.'''
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Knoxville Express: w. Al White,
of Brighton, last year returned to his
native town and became a chiroprac-
tor after something like quarter OF
a century spent as circus clown,
The other day he went down to Mus.
catine to see the familiar faces of the
Ringing, show, and while there SC
cepted a position as general manager
and he Joined the show. The Brigh-
ton Enterprise says ''his new position
will only require his time for a few
hours each day, and he will take his
chiropractic outfit along and follow
the profession while with the show,
besides looking for permanent loca'
ton while they travel through the
western states" What do you think
of this? An old circus clown as gen.
eral manager, practicing chiromac'
tics and looking for a steady job!
Sounds like the, man who came to
town to borrow, a cracker box to make
a hen coop for his dog. &c.,. ......
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Brighton Enterprise, All is not
yet peaceful in the Mexican camp
down by the ~ cut. After the, elope'
ment of Mrs Maya some time ago,
Maya and his little boy Ala Pedro
still lived in one of the old box cars
but Pedro spent most of his time on
the street the days that his father
was at work. 1t seems that Maya OBJ
hjectedi to, this and in order to pre-
vent 1t has been in the habit of lock
ing the boy in the car in the morning,
leaving him there until he came home
at, night, without good food or fresh
water throughout all the hot days OF
the past week. Marshal Sweet has
investigated the matter and notified
the r. l. officials, so it is probable
that the father will be compelled to
give the boy more humane treatment
Newton, Journal: There is a most
remarkable incident In connection
with the, death of Percy McCord
which is that the little Canadian town
of Bulyea, sent representative along
with the family as an honorary escort
| from the town in which the Percy
McCords live. The gentleman Is W
]. Burton, a Y. NJ. c. A. man and the
expenses of his trip are paid by the
town out of its treasury by vote OF
| the city council. This Is mark Of
esteem seldom accorded a man except
men who are officials in one way oil
another and speaks, volumes for the
high regard in which Percy McCorc
was held by his fellow townsmen.
J. .t4.it ~. fE.N - - -. e. 81. ..t.'.r 4.
A Marshalltown stock raiser sent g
consignment of fat hogs into Chica
go recently, shipping when the mer
curry stood 95 in the shade. Fearful
lest he should have to take a heavy
shrinkage, or possibly death rate, he
improvised a refrigerator for hi!
stock car. He bought a half ton Of
ice, tied up in fifty pound chunks, en-
closed in gunny sacks and wired then
to the top Of the car, allowing them tc
hang just above the backs OF the ami
mails. Not, a hog died and the shrink
age was very Slight.