Off The Publisher’s Desk – 9-13-2017

I hope everyone had a great time at the Colfax Firefighter’s annual event this past weekend. I was confined to Glenwood City with its annual Rustic Lore Days and the All School Reunion. I was very happy to see the Colfax High School Band and the Elk Mound High School Band in the Glenwood City Parade Sunday afternoon.

Both bands captured second place awards with Elk Mound in class A and Colfax in class B. Elk Mound also won the best drum major. A big job well done goes to both bands.

I had a visit from Dave Weingarten, who worked at the newspaper office in Glenwood City in the late 1940s. He had returned to attend his class reunion (Class of 1947). He related to me that while working at the newspaper office he broke a finger when he pinched it between a large piece of lead and a table. Lead is a very heavy element and, back in those years, lead was the main ingredient used to create type and forms that were used in the printing process. Lead was used from the time of Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type back in 1440 until the 1970s.

Well anyway, Dave broke a finger and went to a local doctor to get that break attended to. After the doctor repaired the finger, he ordered Dave to come back in a couple of days to get a shot of penicillin.

A young nurse was on hand at the clinic to give Dave the shot, and as Dave told it: “You know where they give you the shot of penicillin.” He continued: “She must have liked what she saw, because she married me!”

We were very concerned about Paula’s brother and niece who live in Florida and with Hurricane Irma destroying everything in its path. She called her brother last week and found that he was preparing for the storm, putting hurricane shutters on and his wife was flying to South Carolina to stay with a sister and he was driving out of Florida to a friend’s. As of Monday morning, Paula’s niece was out of power, but so far had little damage.

Thanks for reading!       ~Carlton