The Independent-News, Volume 94, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 July 1968 — Page 18

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il. In their secret code, a hobo furtively scrawls this figure on the side of a fence. It means “the sky is the limit"—it’s a great place. This is the tag the American hobo has placed on Britt, lowa, an otherwise obscure little town that once a year welcomes the hobo with open arms. For the last three decades, such luminaries of the vagabond world as Scoopshovel Scottie, Highway Johnnie Weaver, the Pennsylvania Kid, Lord (Open Road) Jones and the Hard rock Kid have made their way to the Northern lowa farm town in August. These Knights of the Road come to Britt for the annual Hobo Day celebration, also known as the National Hobo Convention. The fete is a promotion full of hijinks and shenanigans that grew out of a spur of the moment idea in 1900. It brought the community the dubious distinction of being the “hobo capital of the nation." In Britt the hoboes wolf down great quantities of free mulligan stew and liquid refreshments of all types. Warm apple pies placed conspicuously on backyard windows are not unknown, either. The fiercest competition came in 1957 when Scoopshovel Scottie took on the loquacious bantamweight, Ben (Hobo) Benson, a 110-pound bundle of energy. Their confrontation crackled with high voltage tension. “You’re a drunken bum," Benson, the incumbent King, yelled at Scottie while on stage. “You’re a disgrace to the hobo world." Scottie, his eyes bleary from beers given him by friends, was infuriated. “Don’t vote for this greaseball," he shouted. “He’s a bloated newspaper bum." Still agile despite his 85 years, Scottie tried to use his constant companion, a shovel, to bop his rival over the head. Luckily, cooler heads stepped in. When the balloting was over, the crusty old seaman with the shovel had regained the title so dear to him. The tattooed Scottie, who left his family at the age of 11 to sail the seven seas, began his reign as king in 1936, during the lean depression years. Then there were thousands of hoboes riding the rails, far more than today. The jack-of-all-trades vagabond was catapaulted to hobo royalty by virtue of his cooking skills. The hoboes liked his soup so much they voted him king. His chief adversary, Benson, has been called Hobo Day’s most colorful personality. He served as king during the war years. “Hobo" got caught up in patriotic fervor and worked in Red Cross and bond drives, speaking on radio and before service clubs. The tiny hobo had a fetching manner. He served as hobo king seven times, before he went into Hobo Day exile, embittered by his defeat in '57 at the hands of Scottie. In 1959 the banty scrapper sent a telegram to the convention urging his peers to oust the Scoopshovel man as king. Back in the 1930’5, an unkempt Hairbreadth Harry turned author and came up with a literary creation with the* mundane title of “Inner Tubes Come Clean." Highway Johnnie Weaver turned composer when touched by the gaiety of the Britt festival. He wrote the fast-forgotten ballad, “On Britt’s Old Main Street.” All types of hoboes have come to Britt through the years: some on freights, others trudging along the highway or sitting happily in the car of a sympathetic motorist. Flashing a toothless grin, “Kid” says the hobo has many intangible assets like “sleeping outside — the greatest thing in the world. They say if you can sleep under a tree, you draw strength from it. You know, I believe that because I’ve done it and felt better the next day." Britt hasn’t ignored the distaff side, either, at least not in recent years. Polly Ellen Pep’s charms won her the title in 1946 as being the first hobo queen. Her successors have included Boxcar Myrtle French, Sylvia Davis, “the hitchhiker,” and Boxcar Betty Link of Baltimore. The most dynamic probably was Boxcar Betty, whose influence was so great that she was named queen in 1955 despite the fact that she was an absentee candidate. Hobo Day got a second chance 33 years later. Britt residents were delighted at the reaction to it. The celebration has been going strong ever since. Upwards of 30,000 spectators cram into the farm community each August for the carnival. Though there are only a few hoboes on the road in this affluent era, the remaining few chuckle with delight here each summer—reminding the world that the hobo is not yet extinct. Hobo Days this year are August 12 and 13.

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