The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-28
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Br RUSSELL kAY


There'n be days like 7fhis but
thank Heaven they're few and far
between. What I mean to say IS
that these may be FAIR DAYS
for the Big Boss (although I've
been calling him by a few other
namesl-but they are DOG days
to me: doggone if do and dog
gone if / don't.
Course you can't really blame
the Boss. He's been goin' round
here with his shoulders all bowed
down under the weight Of the
Press Breakfast at the Orange
Festival in Winter Haven, and a
ton or two of requests for passes
to the Florida Fair on his neck
besides numerous and sundry 9TH
CT details to look after before the
rates swing open Tuesday.
So he ups and dumps his week
ly column right in my lap and
says, f'Gah you amt got much to
do outside Of answerin' a few
hundred letters, gettin' out a.
stack of circulars. keepin' the
books and few other odd chores
you 60 ahead and knock out a
column for me this week and il
we both don't get shot I'll buy
you a lollypop or sumpin'
When sat down to the type
writer had as bad a headache as
Westbrook PegIer had after his
New Years celebration, and had
a notion to follow his example
and fill my column by writin'
The Boss Has Gone to the Fair.
Ha. Ha", and keep on repeatin' it
until the darned column was full
up. But on the other hand. may
be that wouldn't be so smart, and
anyway I hate to be an old copy
cat.
Then I thot I'd ask Gle Trice
Carten to put her brainy head
close to mine for an Inspiration
and SHE'D GONE TO THE
FAIR, TOO.
Many's the time I've sat and
watched the conductor Of this
column groan and growl and
sweat worse'n a wrestler out at
BENJAMIN Field goin' thru the
agony of gettin' out of toe-hold.
And I've seen him start a sheet
and after writin' about half a
page. tear it out and throw it in
the wastebasket and use a lot OF
naughty words which would have
shocked my Aunt Jane to death.
And usta wish the big sap would
hurry up and get it over with so
I could 60 home before the grits
and gravy got cold and gummy.
But after tryin' it a time or two
myself, hereafter when he gets
into the eontortions of compost
ton I'll be a fountain of human
sympathy.
And now, havin' emptied my
tear ducts, I'll tell you about
what a swell time we had at the
Press Breakfast:
Regardless Of reports and rum
ors TO the contrary. the newspa-
per men opened the affair with .
business session. The principal
event was the decision of the
Board Of Directors to work to-
ward bringing the national con-
vention Of the NEA to Florida in
1889. Success in this endeavor
would mean reams OF favorable
publicity for the state. Practical
" every city in the nation would
be REPRESENTED at the convention.
and with the beauties Of the state
spread before them. those boys
would really go to town" when
il comes to writing in their home
papers about our winter vacation
land.
Don Lochner, the new presi-
dent of the Florida Press Asso-
citation. welded the baton at the
business meeting. and the cap
able manner in which he han
died the affair assures the associa-
ton Of energetic leadership this
year.
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took the gang out TO his Cypress
Gardens for q fried chicken din
ner. And when the boys and
girls got thru pickin' the meat off
the dnam-stieks they TOOK in the
Festival. tn1 sfsasrs
At i1.3o the doors of the dining
room Of the Haven Hotel were
swung open for the gathering Of
Fioriaas Fourth Estate = Jack
Worthingfon vas the belle Of the
hall al dressed up N soup ard
fish clothes-Keathly Bowden Of
ClewiSton had to STAY home and
nurse his press which fen thru
the fioor-Charles Korbly was
there. but xhere2-colin Eng
hSh. Bob Gray and Nathan Mayo
represented the Government az
TaIiahassee-KarI Lehman was
head man IN the show. and an al
round coed one. too-L o. Rob
ertSon's Chine-Jap Skit was a
wow-and Junior Chaplin. Sonny
Rasch. Richard Kennedy ard