Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-28


\ even the COM
-. .'.'..... ings, golngs
"n' ri'AhiN" and misdeeds
of the cats and dogs. Already
The paper has an international
circulation.
The main difficulty is TO know
whether you are reading about
people or dogs-"Sammy Craig
tore up the Craigs bedroom cur
tains last week" Sammy is a
dog
The editors are Elaine Ditchy.
age II, her sister, Julie. s. and
Polly Arbaugh, II. Since the
beginning, last winter, the paper
has reached a circulation OF 30
copies a week, of which a num-
Der 60 10 people in other states
and one goes 70 Red Cross
worker stationed in England.
The affairs Of puppy dogs 50
confused one reader in Florida
that the editors published a cat
and dog directory in one issue
with the notation, I'VE are put
ting this in the paper because
one Of our readers didn't know
Awho Sandy Saylor was"
They practically never use an
apoStrophe but otherwise they
follow most OF the rules of spell,
ing and punctuation although
one OF the dog-neWs paragraphs
must have been written by
Julie:
DO yea have any dog glasses.
IL you do send them to Sammy
Craig. The other day ne mis-
TAXED two wooden dogs for real
ones"
Most OF the dogs and cats get
into the newS-"Two of Jessie
Beans puppies died" and win
KUN II. Ditchy celebrated his
Attn birthday" but Sammy Craig
! gets in oftenest, generally by
eating something Mr.. Craig'S
7 fishing reel or Marion Craig'S
printing press and the letters
and numbers that 60 with IT,"
Y Now he gets IN nearly every
: week under a standing headline,
! "SAMMY'S DIGESTION"
y The latest notation IS:
y Sammy Craig has improved
| very much. He hasn't eaten
anything this week"
y
Other Tter1y, taken II random,
! include:
Jimmy Walls had his first
hair cut the other DAY.
"Wednesday Mrs. MacGregor
got locked out and had Ia climb
mp the porch 90 get In. Tuesday
Mrs. Dadson got locked out and
climbed In the kitchen window"
LOST-A silver ring with
turquoise stone. Louise Mac
Gregor call 4073." CAnd the
next issue added "YOu may stop
looking for LOulses ring. She
found it,
"MrS. Buxton was getting into
taxi and her hat blew of and
\ she could not rescue IT,"
4 "Mellisse HOckings has six
teeth"
"POlly wont lean against a hot
stove again very soon We hope.
She did the other day and
burned the hack right out az
good wool skirt"
Chang Hockings has gone to
the dog pound"
Julie had letter from
Buddy Macdonald who IL In the
service. The letter had pictures
of Gremlins drawn with ColOred
pencils, all thru it,
They are always running lost
and found ads and in one issue
they crowed. One day last week
a very smart dog brought
small white galoSh 10 one of the
editors houses he laid II care
fully on the front lawn We
found out later that IL was one
that Mary Ann Mcintosh had
lost
They also run household hints;
plugs for defense stamps, bonds.
and saving kitchen fats ("Sam
the milkman sells defense
Nonds."): a powerful bla I
against the kids setting grass
fires; a poetry contest (prize
a defense stamp, and lot Of
Jokes.
They evidently liked one Joke
more than the others because
they have run II twice:
TEACHER: Johnny, what
are YOU eating7
JOHNNY: Nothing teacher
I'm Just softening up a prune
for lunch.
Tom Mcdonald. who brought
us a file of Our News. says
that the thrill of publishing
hasn't worn thin and he still is
met by the editors with their
\ usual approach
y Have you been anywhere +:
Are you going anywhere? Well
then, what HAVE you been
doing ."
At 3 cents a copy land as
much as three pages of news 10
a copy they have earned and
put aside S11.24 which is 10 he
divided three ways and used for
defense stamps.
However. there's talk OF taxi
ing in more editors. and If they
do we will tell you about it If
we find out.