Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — The Accommodating Night Clerk. [ARTICLE]

The Accommodating Night Clerk.

Up to the night clerk’s desk goes Abe Perlmutter, a Chicago traveling man. *"I wonder,” he says, “could you find me somebody to play a game of pinochle for an hour or two tonight?” "Why,” says the clerk, “I guess so,” and he runs his eye over the register, "Boy,” he calls, “page Mr. Gutwilllg.” Before long Mr. Gbtwillig is found and introduced to the plnoche-hungry Perlmutter, and a game is arranged. “How did you know I played pinochle?” Mr. Gutwlllig asks the clerk. “Oh, I H begins the clerk. Just then emerges from the bar a young man, tripleplied with wine. He stagegrs up to the desk and says: “Shay, I wanna fight! D’ye hear? I’m lookin' for a scrap!” Thus the clerk: 7Boy, page Mr. Kelly and Mr. O’Brien.—Success Magazine. i