The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-07-08
All, He'll Who Cares?

We (Johnnie and mel started out
this week with the best of intentions
by all you folks, as always. We In
tended to get the Banner out on time,
or literally bust trace in the effort
to do So But then. as usual, things
started to happen.
Bright and early Monday morning
we discovered that the gasoline burner
under the linotype machine was stop
ped UP worse than an April colt with
the Observation-Disclosures that is-giving
only weak, yellow flame on top, with
leaks on the far side, on the near side
and all around So we took it to pieces
pan, crown, strainer, piping, nuts.
bolts, screws. joints and what not lying
around loose OH the work bench. There
they were-about forty or fifty pieces
of it. So we cleaned up everything
then got out all the tools and sOm,.
asbestos cord and made paste of REQ
lead and oil and Rugged up near tilt
wise with big StilsOn wrench aid
screw1river. and put her together for
keeps. She don't leak a drop and 81,
a
| flame ought to be-but we fear no HAN
with man-made tools will ever be able
| to again dissemble that burner IN
we lost about five hours from the u ;aa
| grind in giving the treatment.
Then Tuesday came and, we a'vaF
ened to find out about the big raj &
Monday night-just like a cloud-bus,,
with all streams everywhere flooded
as, never before from single rain.
with no train and no mail at all fro i
the north that day, and we sittilr, back
expecting Zig hatch of copy from
our Plain Dealing reporter and all
other up-country correspondents And
Friend Morrow dropped in to say that
he had finished putting strings up in
his melon patch to keep the crows
away. but lie couldn't go out to solicit
subscriptions for the Banner this week
as the country was too much flooded
for him and old Star to get around.
And soon it started to getting cloudy
again.
Then the little Delco-Light outfit, a
trustworthy source of tight and power
for these several years. went to knock
ing because of an accumulation OF
: carbon for many months (confound the
oils Of the present day y but we phoned
into the city and Friend Curry came
on out from headquarters to give the
little plant the once over. In about
three hours he had the engine stripped
down to her foundation and again as
semhled. running like a new SEWING
machine-and everybody stood arouni
grinning. Friend Curry went on hi.
way and the Office force got back Of
/ the job, but soon Johnnie came on on
of the composing room and said !" TIL,
!. lower case e's wont fall" And every
E body knows the e is the most popula
5 letter in the alphabet (count 'em any
Z where and see $50 there it was again
l. And here it is this afternoon (sure
l Wednesday, and every squirrel turne
. who has come to town and then stroll
:. ed on down this way we have aske,
$ him Whatyer know that'll do t
i print:' and he replies Nothing,
$ and for the whole three days ther
+ hasn't been six-bits worth of copy t
come in. And Johnnie keeps yellin
/. Copy but there amt nothing llal
t rened in the old town. and we don
8 know what to write about. and fea
5 YOU wouldn't read it if we did write i
). So there you are. And We expect tn
Il Banner is going to lie late in gettin
+ OH the press again tomorrow. Blu
& that's the way of life in countr
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