Messengers That Hurry

1910

"Messenger boys who have had experience in the Wall Street district are asked for so frequently that it looks as if we will soon be obliged to insist upon that as a qualification for our boys," said the manager of an up-town messenger agency.

"Customers claim that boys with a Wall Street training execute errands much more expeditiously than the common variety of messenger. I am inclined to think that they are right. Nobody is allowed to loiter down there and even after the boys go away the habit of hurrying sticks for a little while." — New York Times.


Waste of Time

"A girl called up yesterday over the telephone and asked what a kiss was."
"Just so. And what did the sporting editor say?"
"He told her he couldn't show her over the telephone."

Child Lost When Father Runs Errand

Pennsylvania, 1915

FORGOT HIS CHARGE

Child Lost when Father Goes on an Errand.

Ellis Hardman, 5 year old son of Charles Hardman, Liberty township, was lost for a time in Waynesboro on Saturday. His father took him along to that town and put him in the care of another man while he went on an errand. The other man forgot the child and walked away.

The little fellow wandered around in search of his father and when he could not find him he began to cry. Patrolman Rentzel found him near the public square, and after a hunt discovered his father.


UNIQUE SOCIETY

Meets Once a Year to Watch the Old Year Out.

Among the places at which "watch night" services will be held in this county is Arendtsville, where the exercises will be in charge of an organization formed in 1876 for this special purpose and meeting once every year thereafter. Since its organization 1168 persons have enrolled as members. It is known as the "Arendtsville Time Society". Its motto is "Watch and Pray".

—Adams County News, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1915, page 6.