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*VVVVWakarusa—Some TownWe had occasion to visit Wakarusa the first ofthe week where lives our former school principal, ! J Charles Sunthimer, Superintendent of Wakarusa; *:• schools the past year, and also D. A. Rhuebottom, | 4 who conducts the Wakarusa Tribune irl a white ' * collar and well-creased trousers, like any prosper- j *f ous conductor should conduct.We visited several of the stores—Lehman’s, 4 Busy Store, The Fair Store, Etc., Etc. We had | dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rhuebottom and it was,*!* some dinner. They even had potatoes on the table. 4 Ho we or this fact was explain, 1 by Mrs. R. when £ she stated that their subscriber^ .....r failed to remcmber them at least once during the year by f 4 the gifts of potatoes, lettuce, radishes, onions, j eggs, and other fruits. D. A. said the merchants always gave him a necktie, a collar, a pair of socks 4 or a suit of clothes. Others keep the office girlsi ♦supplied with candy. And we remarked that that! wasn’t Wakarusa where we were at—it must have j been heaven. , XBut what we started out to say was that Floyd 4] Lehman conducts a barber shop at that place. * While we were in the chair having a towel tucked 4 r round our neck preparatory to receiving a face 4. wash, Mrs. Lehman, the barber's wife, stepped in-to the shop and remarked to her husband: “Why * Floyd! look at your trousers. You ought to wear j-a butcher’s apron.” We gulped once or twice at j ^ the thought and Mr. Lehman remarked: “Yes, dear 1 know, it would keep a lot of blood off my good trousers.” | gWe got out of there all o. k. apd went over to I gj see the druggist on the corner and the young man who jerks sodas told us he had a rather exciting experience the last time he was in Middlebury. Itj|j seems some of our rough neck boys threw eggs at j J him. We sized him up and from the impression wc; ■ got we would think that some guy had a lot of nerve to do it. From his outward appearance he could just about break an iron poker over the muscle on his right arm and if he isn’t left handed he could deliver an awful wallop. We would advise the home boys to throw bricks at that bird and be sure and hit him the first time because if you do not and he gets a hold of you there will be several young men missing from our community.Maybe you folks don’t know that Wakarusa has paved streets, water works, electric lights, ’n everything. W^ll they have. ’Nother thing Wakarusa has is the biggest furfliture store we ever saw in a town of that size. Our attention was called to the fine display of pianos on the mainfloor in the center of which stooda handsome
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Middlebury Independent
Middlebury, Indiana, US
Fri, May 30, 1919
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Aaron G.
OH, USA 26 Mar 2019
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