Sheaffer,17 the butcher, was Marshal the second year. Don't know who was third, but George Erisman, the doll doctor, was in charge the fourth. �One time Weill had a horse sale at Jake Grimm's sales and boarding stables and the Boss got a good deal on a horse. When he hitched him to the hearse he balked

unsuspecting pedestri- an from the rear and roared "Almanacs!" into his ear. The startled customer often bought, relieved that he was not about to be assault- ed. (Town Characters," Sunday News, October 19, 1958.) Could this be the same almanac vendor whose stock in trade during the summer and fall was cried

and hire myself to a driver. I'd sit behind a stiff opponent and, even though the others watched me like a hawk, I'd usually get away with using those sig- nals. This earned big money for me, a quarter at least. It was about this time that I was called to testify in court. In those days if you walked