Everybody Slid Monday Noon

EVERYBODY SLID MONDAY NOON

COUNTY CLERK BLUM ORDERED A RAILING

To Be Put On Courthouse Steps 

How A Man Struck Four Trees

Another Spilled Ten Pails Of Beer

Monday was the day everybody took a fall. Many and varied were the sights on Main street as Monday shoppers and the usual pedestrian slipped and slid to his destination. A strong wind came up about noon to add to the consternation of men, women, and children who had to walk even a few steps.

County Clerk Blum started home for dinner and when his feet slipped from under him on the top step of the south entrance of the court house, he thought his days we re numbered. He did not fall, however, but kept his equilibrium by nearly running his legs off down the steps and into the middle of the court yard, where he intrenched himself in the snow. Always thoughtful for the county's welfare, he was very much afraid of an accident and a damage suit. So he immediately had the steps covered with salt and sent for a plumber to build a gas-pipe railings from the top landing to the walk. "If I can''t get a railing up today, I'll have a pope there to hang to." Everybody who heard of his action not only commended it, but suggested that there ought to be a permanent railing leading to each door of the court house.

"Bad day for drunks," said Sheriff Gillen. "Yes," said an assistant, "a fellow was going up Washtenaw Avenue this morning where there are four trees in the same block about which the walk is built. He bumped into the first tree, slid to the second, jerked himself away and banged against the third. 'Well.' said the drunk, 'I guess I'll wait till this procession passes on,' and he stepped aside until he was sure it had gone."

One chap who makes a practice of carrying ten pails of beer, five on a stick ta each hand, to his fellow workers every noon, got more than his share today when the contents of the ten pails flowed over his outstretched form. He went back and the pails were refilled without cost.