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The Unonimous Letter
A scared looking darkey rushed into the sheriff's ofEce in a Southern town, carrying a scrawly, unsigned letter in his hand, and said:
"Cap, I jus'got to have peteckshun. Someone done wrote me a unanimous lettah and say he's fixin' to kill me, so I'se got to have peteckshun."
Building Moteriol Disrriburors To Hold Annuql Meeting in Chicogo
The National Building Material Distributors Association will hold its annual meeting at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicag,r, on November L2 and 13, 1953.
John P. Ashton, Ashton Wholesale Service, Des Moines, Iowa, president of the Association, r,r'ill preside at the trvo day meeting and has extended an invitation to all building rnaterial distributors to attend the meeting.
The sherifi said :"Let's see your unanimous letter."
He looked over the anonymous scrawl, and said:
"Boy, you don't need any protection. A11 you have to do is let this fellow's wife alone, and he won't hurt you."
The letter holder was half weeping by this time. He said: Cap, you doan seem t' undastand! Dishere's a unanimous lettah! How does I know whose wife to let alone?"
Building Contrqclors Golf Tournqmeni
Ben Brouwer, president of Ready-Hung Door Manufacturing Co. of Southern California, and Dennis Noor, insurance man, teamed up to win the Inter Chapter Golf Tourney held by the Building Contractors Association on Fridar', October 9, at the Victoria Club in Riverside.
About 25 teams were on hand to compete for the handsome trophy presented by Earl McGary, and won by Brouwer and Noor.