The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-03-16


mayor of the city of Oskaloosa, is
surely one worthy of consideration
End praise Starting with nothing
and working 22 hours day Tor IS
years, he has accumulated enough to
get married and live in comfort ever
after. And we are afraid Charley
WON'T do it. But he ought to.
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Speaking about business careers,
we remember when, we bought d
steam laundry in a desperate effort
to get printers ink off our fingers.
We run it for four years, and washed
and washed. but khe ink still stuck
and We finally had to give IT up and
go back to the ink barrel and the hell
box. Now lest some one would
think we were swearing, we wish to
explain ourselves. Printers pie IS
bad mixture of type, and when ii
becomes worn or broken it is thrown
into a receptacle known to the pro-
fession as the hell-box. After it is
sufficiently saturated with tobacco
juice it is boxed up and shipped away
and traded for new stuff,-type, we
mean, not tobacco juice. But why
the receptacle is called the hell-boX
we do not know, and other authorities
differ. We presume it is for the
same reason that a printers appren
tice is called Devil" The or
biography of this word also begins
and ends in mystery.
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But, as we intended to say,-back
there along about the first comma
when we bought the Laundry, we
were rushing down town one morning
about o'clock to see that the wash
water was of the proper temperature
when l.. l.. Hull called to us from an
upstairs window and wanted to know
where the fire was. We had heard
of no fire and appeared surprised
whereupon, he ventured the question
that If there was no fire. what were
we rushing down town in the middle
of the night for? Those who knew
Mr.. Hull will remember that he pre-
ferred to work half the night and
sleep late the next morning, some
lines until 10 and II o'clock.
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When we set up shop for ourselves
Mr. Hull was the first fellow to come
n and wish us well He said: 81
am glad you have made the venture
my boy, and | hope you will succeed
Remember this. man can make a
success OF even peanut stand, if he
will sick to it, and give 1t his best
fort We have often thought OF
that little bit of advice and have by
is recollection many times been en-,
couraged to make another resolve and
go on when despair had us By the
coat tails.
Going back little further, we be.
'ieve l.. l.. Hull was about the first
fellow we ever worked for The
family used to live on Second avenue
west and Mr.. Hull at one time kept
an eagle, an ostrich, a monkey, a pea
cock, and several other animals OF
like character. We split the kind
ling and carried in coal for the house
hold and also acted as animal trainer
We shall never forget how near tC
The seventh heaven our boyish heart
scared when in addition to our regu
lar compensation, one Saturday even.
ing, Mrs. Hull threw in an ostrich
egg. We treasured it for a long time
until an unseemly fall from the man,
tie over the fireplace left only mem
DRY and Il bad smell Whether it
was because the family grew tired OF
our services or because we gave sat.
isfaCtiOn, We have never been able to
decide, but from coal HEAVIER and ami
NAL trainer we graduated into a place
in the back room of Mr.. Hull's harness
shop where the fly nets for 3ll the
horses in North America were made
Say, do you remember that old shop?
Located where Dolls Cafe is now?
We'll, if you don't, you are not a
blown-in-the bottle Oskaloosa boy
The badge OF honor and the crown OF
glory belongs exclusively to those who
twisted and plated while Capt. Mar.
tin, Tom Magee and Pete Ladynski
cut the leather strings. Glory be
what great DAYS those were!