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dm X i PROP : V/ASH /Ifm .rfS: Hl-Ya Fellers: .■ . , vSince so mrjiy of us on the Hoover Rail Str.ff seems to be'bqrrovTing a little stuff, now and then from the Readers Digest', I am going to change sli.5htly and borrow one of "Quillen’s Quips", - quote, "I v.'ill now mount my horse and (gallop madly off in all directions at the same time", V/e are sure all of yxjujDoys enjoyed the Prop-Wash letters in the December rjid Jrji- uary issues by various homefolks and Jean Schenck, Re. ferring to Sam Jeffries brief letter in -the- December issue, which v/e feel you all got a big kick out of - when approached about writing this letter Sam said that he was scared almost as badly as when his first child v/as bom - but didn’t tell you just how bad thal was - according to "Men" Brackett and "Lefty" Blanto; ^ M?jiid which is darn good authority, Sam was excitedly awaiting the arrival of his first born, in .fact he v/as so. excit^^th?.t he was running over every chair in the house, and just making a nuisance oF’himsclf in general - and the Doctor realizing that Sam was going to be much more o^ a problem than his vdfe, Fronie, decided to get Sam out of the Way temporarily the Doctoj* loaded his hypodermic and called Sam to the bed room, gave him the shot in his arm^rjid put him to bed. The next thing that Scim knew the Doctor v;as shaking him and telling hi'm to get up - saying, "Sam, you have a fine baby boy," Sam’s grog^ reply wasj "YerJi, I know that Doc, b-b-b-but what^s Fronie got?" . Jean Schenck’s letter in the January-issue aMost missed being printed as the Office Force nearly wore, it out, re*~ding, and re-reading it, before it reached the mi- moograph machine. Some 'of the yr.rhs he told may sound a little odd to some of you, younger fellers’, but all of us v/hd'v/ere raised in Lri.wndale at' the time Jean was, can vouch for those rather peculiar customs. There are a few inci(ients that have been left to Dr, . rds watermelons just like JecJi, and he decided or^c-iday to ii^V^de-the.'v^atermelon patch be longing to .'Mrs, Bueio Hicks, who at that ^ time li^i^bd'a rn^le or; so-f^bm here - Sam had picked the largest watermelon in tfie patch and ^lad just' 'Startc^d-'down'tlie road, with his’big load, when Mrs, Hioks drove in sight in '-her 'horse a|id\bug^, ' It didn’t take much figuri.ng for Mrs, Hicks to'know v;here that melon’ came fVom',,-so laying the whip : on the horse, she yelled to Sam, that as soon as-she .caught -'Kim, 'he T^as going to get ‘ a taste of the same medicine, Scjn was; small ana the>‘melon was large,,! so he was forced to abandon his ill-gotten gains'- r^nd head for home on, the double-quick* - Sam was s6 '> frightened ,that it never occured to him th'at he mght easily have eluded Mrs, Hicks by turning off the road into the’woods, until forcod to do. so by exl:^aUstio!n, and by this tine ho was almost home - a very tired but v/isep little boy. Arid while vjc’re talking over Dr. San’s bcy-hood days, we’d like tell, you abput one'of h^s early trips-on a train - when he was about four years old, his Mo'^thiis^r' took* he, and his bro thers, John, Hal rxid Jean on a trip to'Texas — at i-'ne of the stop-overs^ allov/ed for neals, as the little travel-w,o3rtl:;.p'oup were giving.their order for'dinner, the waiter very solicitously bent over, young Sam'and in that faqt nasal twang,'peculidi* to wait ers, he asked, "Tea, Milk, .6r Coffee'?, and little Sam meekly replied, take Tea- Milk please", 'After the so yarns oit Sam Jeffries and Dr. ^aiii'. I’m very much afraid that I’ll be on the "Ian" "^fran novj on, ]-• ^ 1. • Up until now, we have been unable to supply -tihe demands of the homefo],fcs for your paper, the Hoover Rail, duo to the very, laborious task of running the mimeo^aphing .Vuachine by hand, Mrs.. Helen V/alker h done by far the greater part of this tiring job each month - but from now cn things are going to be different around here, as our' kimcographing machine has been notorized and we can print as many copies as we desire, simply by turning on an electric switch and sitting back and watching them roll off the press, ., • f ■ (Continued on next page)
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