Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1919 — STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

Does This Queer Pueblo Ghost Cough and Snore? PUEBIXY, COLO.—This htisTllfig little burg is building a new city huR njljl auditorium. It is under construction and will soon be iinisb<d. I util n6w the city cointnissioners !i:ivc been prolix well satisfied with the building. Now ■ they’re worried. Attd ntt~bectrttxe of

I'mle Jimmy, the night watchman, who has reported to them ami to the ]H>liee that the building is haunted. k I ncie Jimmy s»ys that every night | s he makes his rounds he hears the .host. He says sometimes it makes Knunds just exactly like a man coughing. At oilier times he would swear ’it was n man snoring. Time and time t.-igain he has tried to chase down the cough or the snore by ear, but has

never succeeded. In the daytime, Uncle Jimmy says, he has gone carefully over the structure looking for some hiding place he might have overlooked at night. He has searched ••very nook nntl corner in the big building. Not a sign of the ghost can he find. But still the coughing and the snoring go on every night. Everybody knows h’s tetribly unltfcky to have a new building haunted. It’s bad enough to have nil old. tiimbltMiown. ramshackle structure ghostridden, Hut when it’s a new, up-to-date city hall and auditorium that is afflicted with a ghost the thing is-serious. Moreover, this is no ordinary ghost. Ordinary ghosts are seen, not heard. And if Pueblo must endure a coughing, snoring ghost in its new city hall and auditorium, can it be made a matter of civic pride and used for udver tising purposes to attract tourists? This is why the city commissioners of Pueblo are worried. This True Story Needs No Frills in the Telling DENVER. —Here’s a true story that needs no frills in the telling. Miss Doris Heller, a student nurse in St. Luke’s hospital training school, started on a visit to her sister. Mrs. I*. Broquet, in Norton. Kan. On her way to the •depot she made a purchase at the Dan-

lels & Fisher department store. To kill rime she went up to the twentieth story of the observation tower ami out on the bal&my. The balcony on the seventeenth door projects a fewfeet farther than this; below the seventeenth floor balcony there is a sheer drop of 2QO feet to the roof of an adjoining building. Miss Heller lost her balance and fell headlong. She sti u< k x lhe rail of

the seventeenth floor balcony feet first and fell inside the raij. Had she two feet to the right, she would have gone on down. Every bone in both feet was broken and her -spine tured. She lost consciousness. Presently she came to ami began < a or help. This was at noon Saturday. In the course of time, in dragging herse around to the south side to escape the rain, she discovered a door leading to a storeroom. She tore the weather strip from the bottom and beat on the glass panels. Saturday night and all day Sunday she kept this up. . - Mondav at 7:15 a. in. Joseph Taylor, the electrician, went to the twentieth floor to fix the elevator. He heard a faint tapping, but thought it was made by carpenters working below. He descended to the eighteenth floor and the tapping fixed his attention. Thereupon he discovered Miss Heller lyi!*fc.on le balcony. She was wet, dirty and bedraggled, but conscious, calm and even cheerful. Taylor and two porters carried her in. wrapped her in blankets and fed her Then she was taken to Mercy hospital and put m plaster and bandages from head to foot. Dr. Haskell Cohen said she might recover. Now you see why this story needs no frills.

This Lucky Doughboy Has the Whole A. E. F. Faded NEW YORK. —How these special correspondents and the Associated Press do mangle a good story—like this of a private who came home the other day on a liner that arrived here! Anyway, here’s the way the correspondent of a Chicago newspaper sent out the

story : “Two Illinois and one Michigan man returned today with brides. The Michigan man, Private Russell M. Everett of Grand Rapids, returned not only with a bride, but with a pair of gold cuff links, personally presented to him by King George and with the memory of having been a guest of President Wilson and the kings of England and Italy.

“Private Everett wears five wound stripes, and when he was assigned as orderly to Brigadier General Hart. American commander of the district of Paris, his wound stripes attracted President Wilson's Attention. Learning the history* of the Michigan man. President Wilson announced that while he was in Europe Private Everett would be his guest. “Surprised at seeing a private in President Wilson's suite. King George inquired about Everett, and, on learning his story, announced that Everett was his guest while in England. The Grand Rapids boy was the only private who attended the now famous gold-plate dinner to Mr. Wilson in England and on his departure from the British isles he was presented with a pair of cuff links by King George. He accompanied Mr. Wilson to Italy, and while there was a guest in the palace of King Victor Emmanuel." The Associated Press said that Everett was a veteran of the Mexican campaign, was twenty years old, that his bride was French and that he belonged to Watertown. N. Y. Not a word about how, when or where Everett got his five woundsJ Not a word about his life in the Murat mansion in Paris or Buckingham palace in London, or King Victor Emmanuel's palace in Rome! Net a word about his French bride—how he met and courted and married, her, who she is and what she looks like! As for Grand Rapids and Watertown —well, there's glory enough for both. Montrose Thought Coxcomb Peak Was Uncompahgre MONTROSE, COLO. —Colorado is laughing at the capital city of Montrose county and it has a right to laugh. The joke is on Montrose and there, is no use trying to get out from under. Its this way: For more than 30

years the people here have been boasting of Uncompahgre peak and pointing it out with pride on the southern horizon. Uncompal gre. you know, is quite a peak. It is known as "Monarch of the Southwest,” and is the fifth highest in. the state, rising to 14,3dC> feet — higher than Ixrngs, Pikes, Evans and most of the other well-known peaks. About two years ago a new citizen came to town. - He didn't seein to be particularly impressed with Uatem-

pahgre when it was pointed out to him.. He asked what the snow-crowned summit off to the southwest was. He was told it had no name and didn't amount to much. He said it looked gOod to him. He began writing to the government and asking questions. About this time he begin advancing the theory that "Uncompahgre” was Coxcomb peak and that the unnamed snowy summit was the real Uncompahgre. Postmaster A. F. Reeves, who has lived in the valley 30 years, would npt listen ft him. Neither would Couhty Surveyor W. H. Fleming. There ■were scores of other old timers who were almost willing to stake their lives on Uncompahgre. But the newcomer stuck to it till thejnited States geological Fiirvey proved bevond question that “Uucdmpahgre” was Coxcomb and that the snowy summit “with no name” was the honest-to-goodness Uacornpahgre. .