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Out of a Job!

A few days ago a young man still in the twenties, dropped into the
office and begged for his breakfast.  He said he was without a job,
penniless and hungry.  He pulled out his army discharge and hospital
card as proof of his service and sickness.  For four months, according
his story, he was connected with a painting firm in a city in New Jersey
and received $1.12 1/2 an hour or $9.00 a day.  Three weeks ago he was
discharged and since then had been looking for a job and has failed to
find one to his taste.  He expects to get over a dollar an hour for
unskilled labor.  He was offered board and room and 25c a shock to husk
corn by one of our farmers.  He sneered at it.  It looked like hard
labor to him.  He wanted something easy.
  This man will probably never amount to very much in this world as far
as any constructive work is concerned.  He has become a parasite.  His
physical health has been broken due to disease brought upon him by an
immoral life.  He has become a drifter, shifting from place to place,
never getting anywhere.  The man without a job today with no prospect of
ever equipping himself for any special work in life is a sorry and
pitable being.  Education and earnest application in early life will
prevent any man from beocming a burden to society and will always open a
way for finding his niche of usefulness and efficiency in this world.



West Side News 

  Benton Marta is improving slowly.
  Jim Allen is on the sick list.
  Ralph McAdams visited in Columbus for a week.
  Bill Stanley is some better since taking a dose of scrap.
  Jumping or whirling jacks is the latest in birthday presents.  So be
it A. and M.
  Mary Trice was seen headed for Lima the other day over the B. & O.,
she had a tie ticket and was traveling in the center of the road and had
the right of way.
  Miss Opal Miller was expecting her best fellow to call on her the
other evening a Mr. Williams and she thought she would prepare him some
sweet meats, so she g.... the supposed sugar in the pan and waited for
it to boil but she could not get it boiled down enough to taffy when
dropped in to cold water so she began to investigate and found she had
been boiling salt all the time. If she had fed him this salt fudge she
might have kept him ......
  The other day for dinner Bill Stanley overloaded hisself with mince
pie and pop corn and started to his office feeling on the bum when
arriving at the office he was feeling no better and some one told him a
chew of tobacco would fix him out and kidlike he took the advice and got
fixed out in good shape, for it took at that day to get sobered up.  He
went home in the evening and started fire in the kitchen range, then
went to the base burner to rebuild a fire in it which had went out
during the afternoon and while he was working with the base burner Mrs.
Stanley smelled smoke and began to investigae and on going to the
kitchen she found the pipe out of the flue leaning against the wall and
the room full of smoke and just in time to prevent a burn out.  Trouble
doesn't come single handed Bill when a fellow is feeling bad, do they? 
If he had eaten another piece of mince pie no one knows what would have
been the result.
  A half breed is a person who has his business on the east side and
lives with his family on the west side.  Geo. Z. Miller is moving across
on the west side and will soon be a full fledged thoroughbred.
  While Sis Slemmons and Guy Jagger head clerk were debating who should
have a certain fellow over on the east side, at lodge meeting the other
night there was a good looking fellow walked off with Miss Reiger
leaving Sis wondering what would happen next, but nothing turned up her
way and she had to come home alone as usual.
  Monday night the folwowing went to Lima to attend a special meeting of
the K. of P. Lodge, Mrs. Chas. Huffman, Mrs. Henry Huffman, Mrs. Jake
Kuhn and daughter June, Mrs. Geo. Keiffer, Mrs. Geo. Miller, Mrs. Andy.
Roberts, Mrs. Dick Teegardin, Mrs. John Turner, Mrs. Frank Williams,
Mrs. Frank Ward and Mrs. Lehman.  All went well until the conductor came
along to collect fares and when he taxed Mrs. Keifer ten cents more than
the rest an argument started but the conductor won out.  No one knows
why he wanted more from her than any of the rest of the bunch unless it
was on account of her size.  After arriving at Lima they did not know
just where to locate the hall and before they hit the right place they
visited the Moose and some other halls going up several flights of
stairs but they at last found the place after they were about all in,
and stayed so late they kept another crowd from the Grove who went to
Lima to see the show waiting for about an hour setting in the car that
was being held up for the K. of P. visitors.  It seems when a lot of
women start out they usually get things balled up once, but this crowd
got several of them.