Never were such things said about a town without
blood being shed.
Has Wicksville any pride?
You bet it has pride.
READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEXT WICKSVILLE “TRUMPET”
Every word printed was actually uttered.
What will you do about it?
Then we printed about twenty little signs that said:
Where is Wicksville’s civic pride?
Will it stand by to be insulted?
Read the insults in the Wicksville Trumpet.
That night we put these all up, and the next morning the town was talking. I’ll bet twenty folks stopped in the office to ask what it was about, but mum was the word with us. We wouldn’t peep.
“It’s so,” says Mark Tidd. “Every w-w-word of it. This town’s been insulted like no town was ever insulted before. It’s a shame and somethin’ ought to be done about it. The Board of Trade ought to do somethin’.”
“But who insulted us?”
“The whole thing’s in the n-n-next p-paper,” says Mark, getting sort of excited and stuttering like everything. “Wait till the paper comes out.”