Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — TOWN REFEREE QUITS JOB [ARTICLE]

TOWN REFEREE QUITS JOB

Human Encyclopedia Would Not Tell What Process Would Rid One of Fleas. Connellsville, Pa. — An editor who is* the Connellsville “Walnut 750,” when Information is wanted on any subject and who has settled more barroom bets than any other newspaper man in history, has passed up that end of his job. During a busy afternoon, when he straightened out disputants as to whether the Mills hotel was in Seventh avenue or. Sixth, in New York; supplied the date on which the statue of Zachariah Connell was erected on the old Fourth ward school building; settled a dispute as to whether Pittsburgh had distanced Cleveland since the 1900 census, and. gave the batting averagei of Scrappy Bill Joyce the last year he was with the old Senators, he was appealed to by a femnine inquirer: “Will you tell me how to get rid of fleas?” the musical voice asked over the telephone. Not wishing to give offense by suggesting that she first catch her flea and then squeeze it gently between two blocks of wood, he suggested that she write the information bureau at Washington, D. C., if table salt failed to do the work.