Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1916 — Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Comes From Hell, but Finds Milwaukee Livelier MILWAUKEE— He was a short man, mild mannered, and had a pleasant smile, but he got the clerk’s goat at the Hotel Maryland when e registered, “Paul M. Fredericks, Hell.” „

“You hadenotta do that,” protested the clerk. “Don’t pull that hell stuff here." „ “But that's where I come from, spoke Fredericks. “Hell’s in North Dakota.” “Tell us some more,” Fredericks was asked by Manager F. B. Sweeney. “Well, Hell (sometimes spelled Hell), is 60 miles from Paradise," explained Fredericks, to the consternation of his hearers, “and we have some fine country. You see you go to

Hell on the N. P., on the Mott branch, seven miles east of Elgin. Paradise is inland, and the only way that you can get there is by stage, and you can only go to Paradise three times a week from Morristown, D. Both of the towns are in Morton county, in southwestern North Dakota,” “How large are the towns?” asked one of the auditors. ( “We’ve got it all over Paradise; Hell’s more than twice as large, replied Fredericks. “In 1910 they had us almost equaled, but in the last two years Hell has grown fast, and if things keep up as they now are we will have a big place some day. - . . “Why, we have three churches in Hell now, while they have only one n Paradise. “Bill Hell is postmaster at Hell and Dick Hell does most of the driving, he has a fine livery business. “Over in Paradise there is not much doing. They have a woman handle the mails there, Eva Weinrich.” “Do you like Milwaukee?" Fredericks was asked. “Well, yes; Milwaukee is livelier than Hell and much larger. I think I’ll stay a while.”