St. Clair County
Remnants Of The Past

Appleton City Journal
12 January 1928

Gallant Knight Gets His Dates Badly Mixed

The old saying that “the course of true love never runs smooth”, was never more fully demonstrated than it was recently in the affairs of a prominent and well-known widower farmer, who lives not far from Hudson. It so happens that his lady friend is a telephone operator, and on the day in question, after enjoying an animated conversation with her over the phone, he later called up to ask her to attend the picture show that evening. Now here’s where his troubles began in earnest. It so happens that another eligible lady operator was on duty, just then, but still thinking he was talking to his enamorita, Mr. Farmer asked her to attend the show with him, and the offer was accepted with pleasure. That evening, “dressed in his best”, with his heart beating in rhythm with his elastic step, he hurried to the home of his lady fair to escort her to the show, when lo and behold, she expressed much surprise and politely informed him that he had made no date for that evening with her. To make a long story short, it required a lot of time explaining how it all came about, and he is still making every effort to obtain forgiveness from the other lady who waited in vain for his coming. The whole affair was certainly a pretty mean trick on the part of this fellow, and The Journal feels that “hanging” would be too good for him, but since we are not called upon to pass sentence, we will leave him to work out his own salvation. Out of consideration for the two ladies who were so ungallantly treated, we refrain from mentioning their names, but the initials of our farmer friend are “Roy Saddler”.