The conductor looked at them closely; then stepped back under a lamp and looked at them closer. Then he handed the old lady's back to her. Then he turned to Lehman and, handing him his ticket, said,
"That is your yesterday's ticket from Kansas City to Chicago." Lehman looked at it dazed for a moment, then dressed and went up into the baggage car where he sat on a trunk all the way to New York.
E. M. Chase, a Norfolk (Va.) newspaper man, has for years been collecting newspaper clippings. The following are from some of his rural exchanges:
"The funeral was conducted at the home by the Rev. Mr. Browles and was afterwards buried [in] the old family burying ground."—Lebanon (Va.) News.
"Mrs. W. G. Neighbors is suffering with a rising corn on her foot."—Lebanon News.
"J. N. and Alfred Quillen were grafting in our neighborhood a few days last week."—Gate City Herald.
"Rev. W. C. Hoover preached an excellent sermon at the Union Chapel on last Sunday, his subject being entitled, 'I go to prepare a place for you.' Rev. Hoover and family then spent the rest of the day with Mr. Luther Armentrout and family."—Shenendore Valley Newmarket.
"The members of Moore's Store String Band met Saturday evening and rendered some very fine music, as follows: W. E. Lloyd, H. E. Weatherholtz, V. M. [Weatherholtz], B. H. Golliday, C. S. Moore and 26 spectators."—Shenendore Valley Newmarket.