The American Flint Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...at the beast and beat it out the door and quicker than I can tell it every shop in that end was stopped and the men were all perched up on stands or anything they could find to get on. Night Manager Meyers happened down that way and saw that something must be done and quickly or the men would all be eaten alive. So he gets the boss, Connor, and tells him to get something for a cage while he got a pair of tongs and they set in to capture the ferocious beast, which they finally succeeded in doing and put it in the elass cage, which Connor had procured for that purpose and all the men came down from their perches and went to work again. Messrs. Meyers and Connor took turn about watching the cage the balance of the night and in the morning they had a genealogist (or whatever you call it) to look at the thing. He informed them that it was one of those horrible water-dogs which are so deadly. Messeur said, after the excitement was all over that it looked so much like an alligator that he 'thot' it was a tax collector from Florida, which had come here to collect the tax on that farm he owns down there, and of course was much relieved. I don't know what they did with the puppy, but presume they sold it to some menagerie, as Myers said he intended to. Brother John McGarrell, of Gas City, spent Sunday here with his brothers, Andrew, James, Laurence and Phil. Brother Laurence McGarrell, whohas been working in the grinding room is off duty with a very sore foot. Brother Harvey Harshman was invited to give a talk in Kokomo, Sunday, March 15th. He talked on the subject, "Why Organize?" and I am told that he gave an excellent talk. The body of Brother Arthur Robertson, who died at Muncie, was brought to this city and was taken to the home who have been making bu...