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"Dead" Man Returned to Clyde.

    Several days ago a lady in the west part of town
    received a message that her son was being sent to
    Clyde at his own request.  The young man had been
    quite ill some time before, but the mother supposed
    he has recovered, and she was quite overcome by the
    news of his supposed death, but proceeded to make
    arrangements for the funeral.  The telegram gave the
    time of arrival at Clyde, and undertaker Fisher was
    at the station to meet the body.  It didn't come,
    and he went to the next train, and in fact made 
    six trips to the station with his hearse in expectation
    of the arrival of the "remains."  Funeral arrangements
    were all completed, even to the preparation of an
    obituary for the Enterprise.

      Four days after the arrival of the message, while
      the family were consulting in great agitation over
      the non-arrival of the body, the young man
      appeared in Clyde very much alive, walked to the
      home of his mother and sister on Piety Hill and
      appeared before the family "in the flesh."  It is
      needless to say the family sorrow was turned into
      joy, the funeral arrangements were cancelled and
      the obituary destroyed. A loosely constructed
      telegram, misinterpreted at the end of the line,
      was responsible for the mix-up.


Transcribed by: Marianne Hitchcock Smith