The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Squaring
The Circle
With
THE HOOSIER EDITOR

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travelling bag stopped him.
Where's the Union Station?" the
man asked.
Right here" said Mr.. Liddy, and
walked on.
CURTIS LAUGHLIN, Dilltown,
~ Ind. settled this 1886 advertis-
ing business once and for all when
he distributed supply of calendars
advertising his combination garage
and lunch stand.
On it he had printed, besides his
name and pretty girl holding a
dog, this legend:
"Ritzy Food"
CLASSY Garage"
CONTRIBUTIONS:
~ In the days before "Marse
Henry" Watterson relinquished ac-
tive control of the Louisville Cour-
ier-J journal, the famous Kentucky
editor was travelling throughout the
Southwest. At Oklahoma City,
"Marse Henry" met Will Rogers in
the railroad station After an ex-
change of greetings, they compared
notes and found that each had more
than an hour to wait for their re-
spective trains. 1t being early in
the morning. they decided to have
breakfast together.
After they had been seated at a
table in the main dining room,
"Marse Henry" said to himself
Now here is this Will Rogers who
has gotten good joke on practi-
cally every important person in the
country-I am going to watch him
carefully and see if can get some
thing on him. If I am able to I
will publish it in my paper when I
get back to Louisville and will, per-
haps, shine in reflected glory"
Finally, "Marse Henry" thought
that he saw good opening because
he noticed that Will Rogers was
eating oatmeal. After one swallow
had gone down, "Marse Henry"
cleared his throat in order to make
Will look up and said in a very sar-
castle tone of voice:
"Mr. Rogers, I notice that you
people down here in Oklahoma eat
oats; now back in Kentucky, where
I come from, we feed oats to our
horses"
Will Rogers sort of chewed that
over for a second, and then re-
piled:
well, sir, I expect that is the
reason Kentucky has the best horses
and Oklahoma the best men"
Ed Sullivan.
Il n
nNE of these days must run
~ up to see farmer named Her.
man in Freelandville, Ind. He's
Dutch and frugal. He bought a
wagon once, and as he was hitch
ing up the team he had walked to
town to get it began to rain. He
left the wagon and walked the team
home. Too much mud for a new
wagon.
Then he bought a car. Several
years later he decided he would like
to trade it in He produced the car.
It shone as it did the day it was
bought.
Its in good shape" said the
salesman. for being six years old"
Herman seemed surprised.
"Yah!" he said. 1T ought to be.
I never made but one long trip in
ito Vincennes.
Six miles to Vincennes.
T TOLD you so note:
l. So printers aren't grouchy old
guys? They don't badger you I'M
necessarily, and make your life
miserable with incessant queries on
addresses and names? And some
times they don't go off the deep
end to catch a fellow up?
Well, I just heard this about the
Union Printers Home, Colorado
Springs. A great number of aged
printers are gathered there
through with work and the grind of
forever keeping editors straight.
But they aren't allowed to have
pencils in the library. Why? Be
cause authorities have found that
when they do have pencils they
spend their time sitting around cor
recting the books of some of our
very best authors for punctuation
and style. All around are signs
reading-"P Please don't read proof
on books"
They say some of the penciled
corrections are pretty good. though
VoU don't remember when the
l. Old Steam Mill was built, be-
cause it was back in 1881. But al
that time it created quite TODD
One historian of the time says:
"One hundred men worked two
days in raising its heavy frame, and
no liquor was used, a fact which ex-