24.5.2009

Penmanship

    Penmanship

http://www.netsaga.is/media/files/s-hands%20in%20the%20pocket.mp3


    Ms Patricia Weston was deputy principal of a large high school in the town of Bunbury, Western Australia in 1977. She asked a friend, Barry Smith down from Perth, the state capital to partner her at the school's annual ball. They attended a local restaurant for dinner before the dance. Afterwards as he changed from his dinner jacket he noticed he had lost his gold pen. Next morning they went back to the ballroom. Failing to locate the pen there, they tried the restaurant, where the owner was pleased to return the gold Schaeffer which was easily identified as it had 'B.Smith' inscribed on it.

    That evening Barry was packing his case to return to Perth when he came across his pen in the bag. Somewhat wonderingly he went to his jacket pocket where he had put it that morning.

    Another pen. He now had 2, both inscribed 'B.Smith'. Barry left the returned pen with Patricia just in case somebody claimed it, but nobody ever did.

    A similar case: in 1953, Boone Aiken lost his pen in Florence, South Carolina. Like Barry Smith's pen it was engraved with his name. Three years later, Boone and his wife were in New York. As Mrs Aiken left their hotel she saw lying in the street a pen that looked familiar. It was her husband's as the engraving clearly showed.

 

    Drinkall Doesn't Drink at All

    Pastor George Drinkall is in charge of a 7. Day Adventist church's temperance programme.

 

    Getting Her Man

    As a young girl Mrs C.L.Watt of Adelaide, South Australia, had always wanted to meet 'one of the glamorous Canadian Mounties'. As an adult she went to Canada but after nearly 3 years there she still had not fulfilled her wish. Then she had to travel from Vancouver to Toronto and took the Canadian Pacific railway. One evening, in the crowded dining car, she was shown to the only vacant seat at a table for 4. The other 3 were men, one in army uniform, the other a civilian and the third, a fair haired young man looking resplendent in full Mountie uniform, scarlet jacket, etc.

    The other 2 men struck up a conversation with her but the tall Mountie at first just sat and listened. Then he spoke, his voice firm: -You are an Australian? Mrs Watt said she was. -So am I.

    A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who was an Australian! The coincidence grew when he asked what part of A. she was from. He too came from Adelaide and not only that but the same suburb, Semaphore.

    - Of the many members of the Canadian Mounted Police the only one I had met in 3 years happened to be from my own home town, she recalls, I am a very elderly citizen but I have often thought of that long-ago meeting with my Mountie.

 

    Programme Dropped

    A TV-station sent out an amendment to its programme guide for a 10.50 pm movie slot: Hang 'em High was replaced by Vertigo, starring Jimmie Stewart.

 

    The Killing Hill

    The New York Herald reported on 26 Nov 1911 that Sir Edmundbury Godfrey had been savagely done to death at a place called Greenberry Hill. The 3 men convicted of the crime and subsequently hanged for it were called Green, Berry and Hill.