One On Wedemeyer

A Story Vouched for by the Grass Lake News.

Ann Arbor Wedemeyer made a speech at Jackson last Saturday evening to a couple hundred people, more or less. As Wede stepped forward on the platform and struck an attitude, a wrinkly grin set up shop on every face before him and elbow nudging became infectious. It seems that quite a large button, sewed on his pantaloons as a temporary expedient half an hour before, shirked duty and had come out into the open, just below our Cicero's midriff. As it was a white bone affair on a black background, it looked larger than it really was, and gave to the orator's middle section the appearance of a pistol target. It is singular how a little thing like that will so ring the snout of speech as to prevent its doing any rooting in the minds of an audience. This absurd piece of bone proved a distracting quantity all through Wede's effort. When all was over and be was told of it, he said he knew that somehow he was being sidetracked.

-Grass Lake News