Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — President King’s Mistake. [ARTICLE]

President King’s Mistake.

"I think I never heard a more ludicrous instance of absent-mindedness than one which Dr. William F. King, president of our denominational Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, tells on himself,” says Rev. S. P. Marsh, pastor of Haddock Memorial M. E. Church. “The doctor had been Invited to a dinner at Cedar Rapids, and just before the guests were to sit down he was called to the telephone to communicate with somebody at the college. The telephone did not work very well, and he had to call ‘Hello’ an exasperating number of times. Finally he got through with the communication and passed at once to the dining-room, where the other guests had taken seats and were awaiting him. He arose upon Invitation to say grace and, assuming a devout attitude, with bowed bead and closed eyes and the tips of his fingers joined, he astounded the company and himself as well by exclaiming: ‘Hello!’ Due solemnity was finally restored and the blessing asked tn conventional form.”—Sioux City Journal