The Times

In 1909, the Boston Post, in trying to improve public relations, gave away 700 canes made of the best Gaboon ebony, to as many towns in New England, with the proviso that the cane be given to the town's oldest resident and that it be passed on to any succeeding oldest resident. Although the custom has not been kept in most towns, Bristol, Rhode Island, still passes it along. It has recently been awarded to oldest resident Mr. Charles F. Dimond, who is a hale and hearty 96. • • We've only now heard about Winifred H. Goodsell, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who, while out driving one day, collided with the car of John H. Diersen, of South Euclid. Her car also piled into the stopped car of Alfred Salzano, of Chesterland. No tow was necessary, however, since Miss Goodsell was turning into the Chesterland Auto Body Shop when the accidents occurred. • • Right near Detroit, there's a relic of a by-gone era, the 32-man posse of Oakland County, Michigan, Sheriff Frank W. Irons. The riders, all volunteers, are officially called the Mounted Division of the Sheriff's Department. The posse is composed of salesmen, factory workers, engineers, carpenters, and men from the various professions. Riding to places motor vehicles can't reach, the posse searches in wooded areas for lost children or hunts down criminals, and it is called out for disaster duty, traffic control, and parades. Members are deputized and furnished with service revolvers, but each man supplies his own horse and western saddle. • • Roland D. Officer, who lives near Glastonbury, Connecticut, says that although there's a sign in a neighborhood luncheonette warning, "Please Do Not Insult Our Waiters By Tipping Them," there is a small white box on each table, with a slit across the top. The box is labeled "Insults." • • From an Oswego, Oregon, friend comes the following good advice: Dogs, it seems, detest the smell of nicotine, and we are informed that a strong dosing of tobacco around your lot line will help discourage next-door and down-the-block pooches from enjoying the facilities of your front lawn. As a matter of fact, our friend, who is a champion cigar smoker, says that after his evening walk he places his cigar stubs at strategic spots around his yard, and it's very effective. This remedy works with skunks, too. • • Last March, when the teacher of a very progressive nursery school in Wakefield, Massachusetts, asked her four-year-olds to draw shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day, only six of the 14 little individualists drew green ones. • • In the realm of unusual statistics, take one that is the pride of Memorial Bend, Texas. This town of 250 families numbers twenty sets of twins among its citizenry—one multiple birth in every 87, a figure that has become a nightmare to statisticians. • • Thanks for the tip, Lloyd Lowndes, of Palisades, New York. Mr. Lowndes keeps cup hooks and screw eyes and washers and all the rest of that tiny mob in order by filing them in the compartments of empty egg boxes. When all else is in chaos, he reports, he can calm right down by contemplating the regimentation in his egg boxes.

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