Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Here’s a Real Seadog—Sir Peter, Naval Mascot - : T\ENVER.—Kvery ship and station in the United States navy has Its mascot. Ls Sir Peter, a handsome black and white Scotch collie of endless pedigree, owned by Lieut. Com. R. B. Hammes, Is serving at the present in thia capacity

at the Denver navy recruiting station. Long years of experience, service on 11 ships and at various stations, travel by sea equivalent to a cruise around the world and of 12,000 miles by land Denver bluejackets declare cannot be equaledahywhere. Sir Peter takes unto himself the rank of his master. Adored by all enlisted men, he accepts their homage as a matter of course, permitting them to be friendly but hot overfamiliar.

He rises promptly when the ship’s captain or an admiral enters the room, but he absolutely ignores ensigns, junior lieutenants and other lesser folk. The canine baronet has led an active and varied life, Jias broken two legs, has been blown 50 feet from a navigation bridge to the deck without Injury, has been run over by a “flivver” whose owner narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of incensed sailors, has saved his master’s life, and has performed splendid service as lookout on board ship and as spy-hunter ashore during the war. During the war Sir Peter served on vessels of all types and was considered a splendid sailor till he went aboard a tiny mine sweeper, the U. S. S. Dahlgren. The Dahlgren had a roll all its own, and a saddened Peter joined the other rookies at the fait Only once has he beep known to lose his nerve. During a terrific storm, while he was on the U. S. S. Virginia, he was attacked by a steel safe and a perambulating piano. With a yell of fright at these unholy phenomena, he hid his head under a blanket. Sir Peter knows all the bugle calls aboard ship. But how he hated the general alarm for battle stations! He knew the firing signals and each would cause him to tremble until the detonation of the broadside. At “cease firing” he was a different being, glad to be alive. “ -

Clack of the Wooden Shoes AstonishQs Chicago CHICAGO- —State street in this town is what you might call sophisticated. —lt hardly ever even blinks an eye nt Dame Fashion’s humoresque. But State street, Chicago, was agape when Miss Marie Dalton went clumping along

in her wooden shoes. Wooden shoes are plentiful in West Pullman, which used to be the “Holland settlement,” but they are new to the" loop. “They’ll never be the style,” said a woman in a striped sport suit. Said Miss Dalton, opening her curvy mouth, “They are in style. Who would be-silly enough to pay S2O a ppir for shoes when these only cost s£2s?’ Prices of leathershoes soon areexpected to tax the purse of Mr. and

Mrs. Buyer even further. The shoe convention held recently in Chicago displayed boots and shoes that are expected to retail at $35 a pair next winter. New York manufacturers prophesy they will be S2O -a pair before next season. With all the other little luxuries of life, like butter and brooms, soaring sky-rocket high, the shoe purchaser has a problem to face. The answer is the pair of smoked wooden shoes on the double “A” feet of Miss Marie Dalton. "There’s more than that to be said in their favor,” dimpled the wearer. “You don’t have to shine ’em —just whittle ’em a little. “And you don’t have to buy lasts to keep them in shape. “And they don’t get wet when you play golf at sunrise. “And they don’t run over at the heel.” ’ And thereupon Miss Marie Dalton went clumping along down the stwuet—the observed of all observers.

Y. M. C. A. Girl Dances 1,271 Miles With 7,003 Yanks EVANSTON, ILL.—The champion Y. M. C. A. girl dancer of the City of Churches has returned. She is Miss Margaret Torrison, 1635 Hinman avenue. She is the daughter of Judge Oscar Torrison of the circuit court

She is a Smith college graduate, class of 1914. That’s the winning combination —Evanston girl and “collegecun you beat it? Anyway, Hiss Torrison was one of a group of 16 girls who volunteered for overseas canteen service and left under the care of Miss Sarah Gibson of Boston. In the eyes of her fellow townsmen she is entitled to the distinction of being the long-distance dancing champion among the Y. M. C. A. girls who volunteered for can-

teen service in France. She kept tab of the number of soldiers she danced with and the distance she traveled while dancing. “I spent a year among the outposts of the American army in France and danced with the doughboys from Le Mans to Coblenz,” says Miss Torrison. “Our boys, for the most part, refused to learn the French dances, but in a few minutes would Instruct the French girls how to execute the American dances. Then the French girls would like the American dances better than their own — far better. “I have danced with 7.003 men, for a total of 1.2T71 miles.-! still have two good dancing feet, too. Also a collection of hundreds of programs, fraternity pins and trinkets. -•—— —• — —7 ~ “We danced in monasteries, barns, castles and In the streets. And the American doughboy is the most enthusiastic dancer in the world —believe me t We had a fine time, but m say I’m glad to be back.”

Matrimonial Adventure of an Arkansas Traveler HOT SPRINGS, ARK.—This city is taking on airs over the wedding of Lieut. Raymond Lee Hiles in Scotland. His matrimonial adventures show the sort of enterprising young man Hot Springs sent to France. It appears that.

Hiles eloped with a Gloucester girl. They arrived ifi"Edinburgh only to find that residence of 21 days in Scotland was necessary before the ceremony could be performed. The lieutenant and his fiancee were naturally considerably perplexed* not knowing any one In Edinburgh. Then Lieutenant Hiles conceived the brilliant idea of bribing two hotel porters to swear they had been living in Scotland 21 days, and the first mar-

riage was performed. The lieutenant and Mrs. Hiles prepared to return to America, and even got as far as a steamer, but lii the meantime the trivial matter of bribery had been discovered and' stern officers of the law arrested Hiles and his wife on the boat and dragged him back to Edinburgh, where he was sentenced to a month’s Imprisonment. The marriage was declared null and void. - . But the friends of the two got busy, and even the smug tory London paper, the Globe, printed a stinging leader declaring that the action of the Edinburgh authorities was insulting and a blot on the fair page of Anglo-American rela *y for Scotland consented to a proper legal marriage ceremony . - i H being performed. „ „ . . . After the wedding the terrifying governor of the prison appeared t* that the said Mr. Secretary had ordered Lieutenant Hiles released.